PESHAWAR, Pakistan: Heavy monsoon rains have triggered landslides and flash floods across northern Pakistan, leaving at least 169 people dead in the last 24 hours, national and local officials said Friday.
The majority of the deaths, 150, were recorded in mountainous Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, according to the National Disaster Management Authority.
Nine more people were killed in Pakistan-administered Kashmir, while five died in the northern Gilgit-Baltistan region, it said.
The majority of those killed have died in flash floods and collapsing houses.
#WATCH: Over 50 killed as a cloudburst, floods and landslides cause widespread destruction in Pakistan’s northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province and the northern Gilgit-Baltistan region, authorities say https://t.co/fRsp697ZoB pic.twitter.com/E6cDKXCWj6
