(SpotNews) PAKISTAN-SWABI-CLOUDBURST-AFTERMATH

Xinhua
19 Aug 2025, 21:53 GMT+10

(250819) -- SWABI, Aug. 19, 2025 (Xinhua) -- Relief personnel search through the rubble of collapsed houses for victims during a rescue operation, a day after a cloudburst in Swabi district of northwest Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province on Aug. 19, 2025.

A total of 46 people have been killed in monsoon rains during the last 24 hours, raising the death toll of rain-related deaths to 393 in Pakistan since Thursday, the country's National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) said on Tuesday.

In total, 706 Pakistanis have died since the onset of the monsoon season on June 26, the authority said in its latest situation report. (Str/Xinhua)

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