31 killed in northern Pakistan floods—mayor | Inquirer News

31 killed in northern Pakistan floods—mayor

/ 02:07 PM July 03, 2016

PESHAWAR, Pakistan—Thirty-one people were killed in the northern Pakistani village of Ursoon when flash floods caused by monsoon rains swept away a mosque, houses and an army post, district mayor Maghfirat Shah said Sunday.

Separately, two Chinese engineers were killed and five Pakistani workers injured when the roof of a construction site collapsed at Tarbela Dam owing to the rains that began late Saturday, Latifur Rehman, spokesman for the Provincial Disaster Management Authority of northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province said.

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