At least nine people were killed and 14 others injured after a residential house collapsed during heavy rain in the Kohat district of Pakistan's northwest Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province
ISLAMABAD — At least nine people were killed and 14 others injured after a residential house collapsed during heavy rain in the Kohat district of Pakistan's northwest Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, rescue officials said.
An official from the Rescue 1122 said late Monday night that torrential rainfall caused the house to cave in the Malgin area of the Lachi area of the district, trapping 23 people under the rubble, reports Xinhua news agency.
Rescue teams from Kohat and the neighbouring Karak district launched an operation and successfully pulled all the victims from the debris and shifted them to a nearby hospital.
The deceased included six women and three children, said the official, fearing that the death toll could rise as some of the injured are in critical condition.
The house collapse came as monsoon rains continued to lash several parts of Pakistan, triggering flash floods, damaging infrastructure and disrupting daily life.
Earlier on Monday, the Provincial Disaster Management Authority (PDMA) of the province warned that additional water could be released from dams over the next two days due to rising inflows.
Earlier on July 2, one child was killed, and 5 others injured after part of a private school building collapsed in Pakistan's eastern city of Lahore, rescue officials said.
The incident occurred in Lahore's Baghbanpura area when an under-construction wall and roof section collapsed, a Rescue 1122 spokesperson had told Xinhua.
The child died at the scene. The injured included another child, two passersby and two labourers working on the building's third floor.
Rescue teams rushed to the site and launched a search operation amid fears that more people could be trapped under the debris.
The injured were taken to a nearby hospital, while authorities were investigating the cause of the collapse.