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20 dead as heavy rain and snow hit Pakistan ISLAMABAD - Thursday (AFP) At least 20 people were killed as heavy rains and snow lashed a vast region of Pakistan, officials said Thursday. In the most serious incident, 11 residents died when a boulder rolled down a hill amid heavy snow and crashed on to their house near the northwestern town of Mansehra on Wednesday, police said. A police team was still trying to reach Kundbalaji village in the snowbound area to find out the facts, Mansehra police official Saeed Khan told AFP. Eight members of a family were crushed to death when the roof of their village home collapsed in the Pishin district of Baluchistan on Wednesday, Pakistan's poverty-stricken southwestern province. The rain in Baluchistan was the heaviest in 15 years, Met office spokesman Qamar-uz Zaman said. |
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