Monsoon downpours kill dozens in northern Pakistan
At least 10 people died near Peshawar when their homes collapsed, said Adnan Khan, a spokesman for the regional Disaster Management Authority.
He said dozens of people werebelieved missing, so the overall death toll could rise.
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Hide AdIn the Peshawar area, two elderly men clung to a fence post and each other as a raging torrent swept over their heads, footage on Pakistan TV showed. Two oxen were swept away in the same deluge.
People were forced to trudge through knee-deep water in some streets in the Swat Valley, a newly constructed part of a dam in the Charsadda district collapsed, while crops were soaked in many areas.
The rain is a suspected factor in a plane crash near the capital
Islamabad, which killed all 152 passengers on board.
Continued rains were yesterday hampering the salvage effort.