Urban flooding hits Lahore and Peshawar as Pakistan reels from fresh monsoon spell

ISLAMABAD: Urban flooding paralyzed parts of Peshawar and Lahore on Saturday as a new spell of monsoon rains battered Pakistan, while the country’s eastern Punjab province continued to grapple with high floods in three raging rivers flowing downstream toward southern Sindh, officials said. The deluge began in Punjab on Monday after India released water into the Chenab, Ravi and Sutlej rivers, destroying farmlands, sweeping away herds and affecting more than a million people.

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