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103 People Die as Heavy Rains Feed Flash Floods

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From Times Wire Reports

At least 103 people were killed and many injured by flash floods caused by heavy rains in northern Pakistan, officials said.

Sixty-two people were killed and more than 100 were injured when a flash flood washed away a small hillside village in the northwest, officials said. Five others were killed in a nearby village.

Officials in the Swat valley said 14 members of one family were killed by lightning, six other people were washed away and five died in house collapses.

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In the capital, Islamabad, three people were killed and several injured by collapsing walls and electrocution during record rainfall of more than 24 inches. Eight people died in nearby Rawalpindi.

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