At least 40 people were killed and many more were missing after a bridge collapsed in northwestern Pakistan as seasonal rains flooded the area, police said Sunday.
Ten bodies were retrieved from a flooded river overnight and early Sunday, local police official Iftikhar Khan told AFP, while 30 bodies were pulled out on Saturday in Mardan town, some 50 kilometers (31 miles) northeast of Peshawar.
He said troops had joined the rescue work and most of the city, including the hospitals, was inundated.
In remote northern Pakistan two people were killed when rain washed away Gais Pain village late Saturday, the regions's police chief Sarmad Saeed Khan told AFP.
Dozens of people have died in landslides and floods caused by rain torrents in Pakistan over the past two days.
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