The “destructive” wind storms that raged across Central and North Pakistan after the intense wave of Heat killed at least 14 people and injured more than 100 others, the officials said on Sunday.
On Saturday afternoon and evening there were steep winds, thunder and lightning swept through the eastern pandjab and northwest province of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa and the capital of Islamabad, heroing trees and shooting up the electric poles.
While most of the deaths were caused by collapsed walls and roofs, at least two people died after being affected by solar panels released whipped -up gusts.
One man was killed and the other three were injured by lightning strikes.
Mazhar Hussain, a spokesman for the provincial administration of the province of the Pandjab, said AFP that such a windstorm evolved due to excessive heat that has reached above 45 degrees Celsius (113 degrees Fahrenheit).
“There were three to four days in the recent wave wave, where temperatures increased a lot,” he said, announcing 14 deaths in Pandjab and 100 injured.
“This windstorm was particularly destructive. The wind speed was very high. There was so much dust that the visibility was significantly reduced.”
PMD predicts more storms
The Pakistani Meteorological Department predicted more storms on Sunday.
Social media was full of videos on Saturday evening about damage that the wind storm was released.
A clip filmed inside the plane, which is about to land in Punjab’s city of Lahore, showed passengers who shouted horror as the plane was throwing turbulence.
The aircraft was later diverted to Karachi.
Other videos show that cars will crush falling trees and roads blocked debris.
Pakistan, one of the most vulnerable to climate change, is increasingly struggling with extreme weather events.
Islamabad has experienced several usually rare storms during April and May, which damaged vehicles breaking the window panels and smashing solar panels.
The thunderous temperatures in April and May become more common in Pakistan, which usually sees that summer begins in early June.
Temperatures in April reached almost record levels, up to 46.5 ° C (115.7f) in parts of the pandjab.
Schools in Pandjab and Balochistan announced at the beginning of the summer holiday due to heat.
(Tagstotranslate) Pakistan
