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20 killed as heavy rain with thunderstorm and lightning hits Karachi!

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VIDEO SYED AUN MUHAMMAD

KARACHI: A powerful thunderstorm reached Sindh Monday (21st of August) night. Consequently, the port city was hit by heavy rain with lightening.

Twenty people, including five women, lost lives and scores got severely injured in two days due to electrocution and other rain-thunderstorm-related accidents.

A boy (L) was killed when a massive billboard fell onto him at  Super Highway’s makeshift cattle market 

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Many neighborhoods plunged into darkness for long hours & citizens suffered from the agony of heat and Chikungunya/Dengue-bearing-mosquito-bites due to electricity outage caused by the tripping of 250 K-Electric feeders. 

Areas like Gulshan-e-Maymaar remained sans power for over 48 hours.

Due to outage pumping-stations will not be able to supply water to a vast number of karachiites for quite some time. 

 As usual roads and low-lying areas got inundated causing heavy traffic jams for hours.  Thousands of sacrificial animals are standing in over two-feet water accumulated due to heavy downpour. 

Rain water accumulated in the Phase VII of the so-called posh locale of DHA. 

According to Met, the city has received 41 millimeters of rainfall last night. Met has further predicted heavy rain for the Metropolis and many other cities of Sindh in the next 24 hours.  

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M M Alam

M. M. Alam is a Pakistan-based working journalist since 1981. Karachi University faculty gold medalist Alam began his career four decades ago by writing for Dawn, Pakistan’s highest circulating English daily. He has worked for region’s leading publications, global aviation periodicals including Rotors (of USA) and vetted New York Times as permanent employee of daily Express Tribune. Alam regularly covers international aviation and defense-related events including Salon Du Bourget (France), Farnborough (United Kingdom), Dubai (UAE). Alam has reported thousands of events and interviewed hundreds of people in Pakistan, UAE, EU, UK and USA. Being Francophone Alam also coordinates with a number of French publications.