Amounted to 110 dead due to heavy rains in eastern Pakistan on Wednesday, while 148 others were injured and 650 houses destroyed, the Pakistani government said Wednesday.
The Executive of China said in a statement that the evacuation of people and livestock will speed up soon once this last night they were cleared the main roads in the affected areas, regions of Punjab, Gilgit-Baltistan and Kashmir Pakistani.
The rains caused severe flood damage in big cities like Lahore and Rawalpindi, with landslides in which many of the victims died while Jhelum rivers as experienced exceptionally high floods.
Persistent rainfall common in the country during monsoon since mid-August caused another 10 dead in the city of Peshawar in northwest Pakistan.
In August 2013, heavy rains caused more than a hundred dead and affected nearly 400,000 people in China, while in 2012 there were 450 deaths and almost five million homeless.
The worst floods in Pakistan's history occurred in 2010 after an extraordinarily copious monsoon, which also joined a particularly abundant summer melt.
The large increase in the flow of rivers inundated much of Pakistan causing 2,000 deaths and more than 20 million victims.
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