Heavy rains in Sindh, Punjab, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Kashmir on Friday left 22 people dead, destroyed crops and marooned a large number of people. An official of the Disaster Management Authority said that most of the casualties were reported from Sindh where torrential rains on Thursday night wreaked havoc in several districts. Fifteen people died in Mirpurkhas and two children in Sanghar's Darya Khan Dhari village when roofs of their thatched houses caved in, according to a report of Dawn newspaper. Intermittent rains caused flood-like situation in several areas of lower Sindh, destroying cotton and other crops.
