Heavy rain and strong winds lashed upper parts of Punjab including Lahore, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) and Azad Kashmir, early Wednesday morning claiming several lives, disrupting routine life and electricity supply.
It is pertinent to note that Met Office forecast more rains.
According to media reports three people died while eight others were injured following torrential rains and gales in different parts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
While, two persons died in Shangla while a woman in Karak. According to reports, seven houses were also damaged due to heavy rains.
KP Secretary Relief Abdul Basit said that those injured had been shifted to hospitals, while in view of more monsoon rains forecast for the province, Rescue1122, Provincial Disaster Management Authority (PDMA) and Civil Defence staff had been put on high alert.
He said that Rescue1122, district administrations and other concerned departments were busy in carrying out relief and rescue activities.
The heavy downpour considerably brought down the temperature and rid the people of mugginess, but turned low-lying areas of plains into pools of water.
The continuous heavy rain also inundated the low-lying areas in different cities, causing traffic disruption.
As per Met Office showed several parts of Lahore received up to 179mm of rain. According to Met Department stats, the highest rain was recorded at the Nishtar Town Director Office (118mm), Jail Road (56.5mm), at Airport 52mm, Head Office WASA, Gulberg 63mm, Gulshan-e-Ravi 79mm, Iqbal Town 69mm, Tajpura 79mm, Johar Town 82mm, Mughalpura 88mm, Chowk Nakhuda 54mm, Samanabad 54mm and Upper Mall 88mm.
Following the rain, power supply to different parts of Lahore was disrupted as 200 feeders of the LESCO tripped.
According to a spokesman for LESCO, the field staff had been put on high alert. He further said that the staff was facing difficulties in the restoration of power supply due to heavy rain.
However, he assured work on restoration of the power supply would start as soon as the rain stopped.
