At least eight persons, including two children, were killed in a flash flood in northwest Pakistan, officials said.
The incident happened when a vehicle carrying them washeading to a wedding party and it drowned in Wana tehsil of South WaziristanDistrict bordering Afghanistan on Saturday, according to districtadministration officials.
Six children remain missing and a search operation isunderway to find them, the officials said.
“Some of the bodies have been pulled out of the floodwater while a search operation is underway to find the missing children,” saidDC South Waziristan Noman Afzal Afridi.
Global warming is expected to unleash more rain, exposingmillions of more people to river flooding particularly in the United States andparts of Asia, Africa and central Europe, The Express Tribune reported.
A study in the journal Science Advances calculated how muchmore flood protection will be needed to keep the risks of high-end floodsconstant in the next 25 years.
Pakistan “will observe almost a doubling in high-end flood risk,” with 11 million people at risk of floods unless protective measures are taken by 2040, the report said.