The death toll from the cyclone that lashed Pakistan's southern Balochistan province with heavy rainfall on Thursday and recent floods has climbed to 225, media reports and officials said Saturday according to DPA. The military has moved more than 10,000 victims to safer places. The bodies of 25 people drowned in the overnight floods were recovered in the Naal area of the Khuzdar district, raising the death toll from the recent tropical cyclone and floods in the province to 225, Aaj news channel said. More deaths were feared in Naal as 100 more swept by the rainwater were still missing. Meanwhile, Pakistan's military has rescued more than 10,000 victims of the cyclone in the province. "More than 800,000 people were affected and around 80,000 displaced by the cyclone Yemyin and subsequent heavy floods in the province," military spokesman Major General Waheed Arshad told reporters in Rawalpindi. Severe weather had hampered the airborne relief efforts over the past four days, he added.
