KARACHI: Forty-six people lost their lives in separate incidents of electrocution and structure collapse, as late monsoon rains unleashed devastation in Punjab and Sindh provinces.
A twelve-year old boy was killed when lightening struck in Rahimyar Khan while two men lost their lives as a result of electrocution in Multan.
Other incidents of roof or wall collapse left a child dead in Shujabad; a man in Nishatabad; two children in Lodhran; a mother and a daughter in a village in Sargodha; two children in Muzaffargarh; and four people including a woman and a child in Dera Ghazi Khan's area of Chabri Bala, Rajanpur's area Fazilpur and Gojra.
In Mian Chunnu, 2 people were killed and 10 others injured in incidents of roof collapse and electrocution.
A husband and wife were killed as a result of a roof-collapse in Gawalmandi area of Lahore.
Five people including a mother and daughter were crushed in incidents of roof and wall collapse in a village in Kamaliat while over a dozen were injured.