At least 25 people died and many more are missing after a bridge collapsed in northwestern Pakistan as torrential rains battered the area on Saturday, police said.
"So far 25 bodies have been recovered" from a river swollen by heavy rains in Mardan town, about 50 kilometers (31 miles) northeast of Peshawar bordering Afghanistan, local mayor Himayat ullah Mayar told AFP.
"Rescuers are trying to find the other missing people," he said.
Mayar said more than 100 people had gathered on a bridge to watch the flooded river when part of it caved in, plunging "almost all of them" into the swirling waters.
He said army troops had been called out to join the rescue work.
More than 40 people have died in landslides and floods caused by rain torrents in Pakistan over the past two days.
