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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Environment
Lauren Herdman for MetDesk

Weather tracker: rains bring deadly flash floods to Afghanistan and Pakistan

People use a canoe to move across flooded land.
A flooded area in the northern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. Photograph: Abdul Majeed/AFP/Getty Images

Heavy rain has fallen in Afghanistan and Pakistan over the past week, with flooding causing widespread damage to infrastructure and farmland on both sides of the border.

At least 135 people have been reported dead, including 21 farmers in the Punjab region who were struck by lightning while harvesting wheat. Thousands of houses have been damaged or destroyed, with several deaths attributed to roofs collapsing under the weight of collected water. Alongside damage to almost 100,000 acres of agricultural land, thousands of livestock animals have been lost.

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