Alwaght- Torrential rains and flash floods in northwest Pakistan left at least 53 people dead and 55 others injured on Sunday.
The flooding in the northwest Khyber Pakhtunwa province and in the Neelam Valley in Pakistan-administered Kashmir was prompted by torrential rain that began Saturday night, disaster-management official Latif al-Rehman said.
Five children and three women were killed on Saturday night in the Kashmiri village of Sam Gung after a landslide caused by heavy rains buried two houses.
The worst hit area was the Shangla district in the Malakand division, where 14 and 12 people were killed respectively. Several houses there had collapsed.
Flash floods in South Asia are a common occurrence, particularly in the monsoon months between June and October, with hundreds dying and millions displaced across the region both last year and the year before.
During the rainy season last summer, torrential downpours and flooding killed 81 people and affected almost 300,000 people across the country.
