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80 dead in Pakistan landslides, rain.

22 March 2007

Officials and residents say 13 more people have died in landslides and accidents caused by heavy rain in Pakistan, bringing the death toll from several days of bad weather to 80.

Local residents say six members of a family died and two were injured when  they were hit by an avalanche in the mountainous Dir district of North-West Frontier Province on Wednesday.                                
                                                                          
Police also say the roof of a religious seminary at Karak town in the same province collapsed on the same day, killing two female students and injuring another eight. Another three people were reported killed in roof collapses in other towns in the hilly province bordering Afghanistan during the last 24 hours.     
                                                                           
Further mudslides were reported in Pakistani Kashmir, where 37 survivors of the devastating 2005 earthquake, mostly women, were killed in two separate landslips on Tuesday.                                      

Police say two more women were killed on Wednesday, when a landslide swept away a house at Moyian Saydan village in Kashmir's Jhelum Valley.                                                                                  
The 7.6-magnitude earthquake in October 2005 killed more than 73,000 people and left 3.3 million homeless. More than 1,000 people also died in Indian Kashmir.

Local authorities evacuated dozens of Kashmiris, whose homes were damaged by the rain, to safer areas in the Himalayan region, where thousands of people are still living in tents after the earthquake.
                                                                           
Source:  ABC Online,  (Agence France-Presse (AFP)

 

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