RAWALPINDI:
The first rainfall of the monsoon season on Tuesday created chaos in the garrison city killing 11 people, flooding Leh Nullah and causing widespread damage to gas, electricity and water supply lines, according to sources.
Of the 11 victims, seven were reportedly killed in Westridge and Race Course areas.
This was the first time that a nullah passing through Westridge claimed so many lives and many attributed it to the encroachments and illegal construction along the nullah.
Many low-lying areas were flooded and rainwater entered homes.
Arshad Mehmood, 45, a mason Kamran and driver Atif Anis were killed trying to demolish a boundary wall which was making rainwater accumulate in their house on Peshawar Road.
Noorul Ain, 14, and her grandfather Malik Atta, 65, in Lane 5 on Peshawar Road were killed when rainwater entered their house and caused a wall to collapse.
