Rain, floods kill dozens

QUETTA—At least eight people have been killed in torrential rains and flooding, which blocked roads and caused widespread disruption in several Pakistani cities, officials said.
Five villagers were swept away early Monday in a flood caused by a downpour in a remote village of southwest Pakistan, officials said. The five drowned after floods swept them away in Ornath village in Khuzdar district, some 450 kilometres (280 miles) southwest of Quetta, a paramilitary official told. The flood also damaged several mudbrick houses in the village, he said. Two bridges collapsed in the area which severed road links to the cities of Quetta and Karachi, and stranded hundreds of passengers, he added. In southern Karachi, Pakistan’s largest city and commercial capital, three people were electrocuted to death, city police chief Tariq Jamil told. The rain water flooded Karachi’s streets, causing huge traffic jams and disrupted train services to other cities, officials said.—Agencies