Pakistan: On Friday, he killed a helicopter during a rescue mission in North Pakistan monsoon and killed five crews on board, said Ali Amin Gandapur, chief Minister of Khyber then, then, said.
“The helicopter of the Mi-17 provincial government, which carried auxiliary goods for the bajaur area affected by the rain, encountered in the Pandiyali area in the Mohmand district because of bad weather,” Ali Amin Gandapur said in a statement.
“Five crew members, including two pilots, were killed,” Gandapur added.
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Almost 170 people killed in lightning floods
Heavy monsoon rains caused landslides and lightning floods across Northern Pakistan and left at least 169 people dead in the last 24 hours, national and local officials said on Friday, AFP reported.
Most of the deaths, 150, were recorded in the province of Pakistani National Administration of Disasasters in the mountain province of Pakhtunkhwa Khyber then.
Nine other people were killed in Kashmir, while five died in the northern Gilgit-Baltistan region.
Most killed died during lightning floods and collapse.
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Five others, including two pilots, were killed when the Khyber Pak Helicople then crashed because of bad weather during the mission to supply the auxiliary goods, the main Minister of the province of Ali Amin Gandapur said.
The provincial government has declared strictly affected mountain districts of the buner, Bajaur, Manshra and Battagram as an area affected by disasters.
In Bajuur, the tribal district adjacent to Afghanistan, the crowd gathered past the excavator that passed the soaked hill, showed photos of AFP.
The funeral prayers began in a nearby enclosure and people mourned in front of several bodies covered with blankets.
The meteorological department issued a warning of heavy rain for the northwest and urged people to avoid “unnecessary exposure to vulnerable areas”.
Syed Muhammad Tayyab Shah, a representative of the national disaster, said AFP that this year’s monsoon season began earlier than usual and expected to end later.
“The next 15 days, especially from August 16 to August 30, the intensity of the monsoon will continue to deteriorate,” he added.
The provincial government declared Saturday a day of sadness, said Minister Gandapur.
“The national flag will fly on the half mast throughout the province and martyrs will be laid to rest with a full state,” the statement of his office said.
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