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AP - Lightning during heavy monsoon rains has struck two remote Pakistani villages, killing at least 27 people and leaving many others injured, police said.
The deadliest strike occurred overnight in the tiny hamlet of Shalgah, 120km north of Peshawar, said Zahir Khan, a local police official.
The lightning struck the home of a local villager named Sher Mohammed, killing 16 people and destroying it and several surrounding homes.
Khan said police were trying to help the villagers, but were hampered by the continuing rain.
"The police and the local administration are conducting relief efforts but there are heavy rains and landslides so it is difficult," he said.
Another early-morning lightning strike in the nearby village of Gandigar killed 11 people and injured many others, police said. The number of injured was not clear.
The two villages, both in the conservative North West Frontier Province that borders Afghanistan, lie in the Dir district, a remote, poverty-stricken mountain region.
©AAP 2003
The deadliest strike occurred overnight in the tiny hamlet of Shalgah, 120km north of Peshawar, said Zahir Khan, a local police official.
The lightning struck the home of a local villager named Sher Mohammed, killing 16 people and destroying it and several surrounding homes.
Khan said police were trying to help the villagers, but were hampered by the continuing rain.
"The police and the local administration are conducting relief efforts but there are heavy rains and landslides so it is difficult," he said.
Another early-morning lightning strike in the nearby village of Gandigar killed 11 people and injured many others, police said. The number of injured was not clear.
The two villages, both in the conservative North West Frontier Province that borders Afghanistan, lie in the Dir district, a remote, poverty-stricken mountain region.
©AAP 2003
