KHAPLU/ISLAMABAD: Nearly 40 people were killed as a cloudburst, floods and landslides caused widespread destruction in Pakistan’s northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) province and northern Gilgit-Baltistan region, regional authorities said on Friday.
A flash flood swept through the remote Jabarai village in KP’s Bajaur, a restive district that borders Afghanistan, following a cloudburst late on Thursday night, according to Amjad Khan, the KP Rescue 1122’s district emergency officer.
The raging currents swept away dozens of people, with authorities searching for survivors.
“Rescuers with the help of locals have so far retrieved 16 bodies and rescued three injured people from the debris and floodwaters,” Khan told Arab News.
“The injured were given first aid on-site before being shifted to a nearby hospital.”
