Leader Online Desk : Pakistan Snowfall Heavy Rains : At least 35 civilians have been killed and many others injured due to snowfall and heavy rains in various parts of Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. Twenty-two children are among the dead. Many of them were crushed in the landslide, disaster management officials said. He also said that roads in many parts of northern and western parts of Pakistan have collapsed and hundreds of houses have been damaged.
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The north-western part of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province has been receiving continuous rain for the past two days. It is also snowing in some areas. Landslides have occurred in some places. Due to which the road traffic has been affected. Many houses have collapsed due to continuous rain. Flooding has occurred in many areas.
Mushtaq Ali Shah, the former director of the Pakistan Meteorological Department, said that the disaster was caused by climate change. March has come. Garami is generally considered to start in March. But this time the weather has taken a turn and it seems to be raining heavily,' he has also said.
