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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 say two more women were killed on Wednesday, when a landslide swept
away a house at Moyian Saydan village in Kashmir's Jhelum Valley.
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.
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