Flash floods triggered by monsoon rains swept away a bus carrying a wedding party Saturday in northwest Pakistan, killing people 21 people, an official said.
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They say it is unclear whether the bride and groom were also travelling in the same bus.
Police said at least 15 people lost their lives in the tragedy, adding that women and children were among the deceased. The bodies of the victims were collected by rescue teams and shifted to the Agency Headquarter Hospital in Landi Kotal.
At least 26 people, mostly children, were killed on Saturday in Pakistan’s tribal area, when a vehicle carrying wedding guests was washed off a mountainous road by floods and flung into a gorge, officials said.
There has been an increasing number of heavy monsoon rains this month that have caused numerous flash floods in recent years and some scientists have linked it to climate change.
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Over 120 people were killed in rains and landslides killed in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Gilgit-Baltistan region in April. Nearly 2,000 people were killed and millions others badly affected in the worst flooding in 2010 that covered almost a fifth of the country’s total land mass.
