Eighteen people were killed and several others were injured after heavy rains pummeled various cities of Punjab including Lahore and Sialkot for around 12 hours, Web Desk reported Thursday.
Due to the heavy downpours, the ceiling of a two-storey house in Lahore collapsed, leaving six members of the same family dead, including two women and a child. Rescue teams have shifted the bodies to Khawaja Kot Saeed Hospital.
In the Mozang area of Lahore, the roof a house collapsed, trapping four people under the rubble while the ceiling of a home caved in near the LDA Plaza in the Johar Town area of the city, leaving six people trapped under the debris.
The electricity and transport systems in the city has also been badly affected because of the rain.
Around 155 millimeters of rain has already been recorded in Lahore.
Sialkot also received rainfall in abundance. In the Green Town and Gohad Pur areas of the city, several roofs collapsed, leaving four people dead and three others injured.
A roof of a house collapsed in Kamunke, leaving three people including a five-year old girl dead while in Diskah a 16-year old girl died of electrocution. In Naruwal, a child was killed while her parents were injured as a roof of a house collapsed because of rain.
It is also expected to rain in Gujranwala, Faisalabad and Sahiwal Division, while forecasts show that heavy showers are to go on for at least another two or three days.
