Authorities have also warned of landslides and flash floods in the coming days
EPA. With more rain expected in the coming days, Pakistani authorities have also warned of landslides and flash floods.
At least 39 people have been killed in Pakistan after days of unusually heavy rains battered the country's southwest.
Flash floods have also disrupted power supplies and transportation networks.
Pakistan has experienced an increase in extreme weather events, as it grapples with the impacts of climate change.
In 2022, one-third of the country was completely submerged by unprecedented flooding, killing more than 1,700 people and injuring thousands.
With more rain expected in the coming days, Pakistan's National Disaster Management Authority has also warned of landslides and flash floods.
Pakistan's most populated province Punjab has suffered the highest death toll so far, with 21 people killed by lightning between Friday and Sunday, AFP news agency reported.
"Pasni looks like a big lake at the moment as flash floods entered the human settlements and main commercial areas," Noor Ahmed Kalmati, chairman of town's municipal committee, told Pakistan newspaper Dawn.Heavy flooding has also been reported in neighbouring Afghanistan.
Scientists have said that global warming is likely to have played a role in the devastating floods that hit Pakistan in 2022.
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