Flash floods kill 43 in northern Pakistan: 公式の／役人s
夜通し flash floods killed at least 43 people in northern Pakistan, the 大多数 in a remote village that did not receive an 避難／引き上げ 警告 before the waters 攻撃する，衝突する washing away most of the 解決／入植地, 公式の／役人s said Sunday.
The 激しい 季節風 rains began late Saturday and were concentrated おもに in the northwestern 州 of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, which has been 不正に 影響する／感情d by flooding in 最近の years that some scientists have linked to 気候 change.
The worst 攻撃する，衝突する 地区 was Chitral, on the country's northwest 国境 with Afghanistan, where the flood waters killed 41 people in the village of Ursoon 近づく the Afghan 国境, which is home to some 100 families, 地区 市長 Maghfirat Shah told AFP.
Pakistani labourers wade through flood water に引き続いて 強い雨 in Lahore ?Arif Ali (AFP/とじ込み／提出する)
Eighty-two homes in the village were 影響する／感情d by the waters, a 救助（する） services 声明 said, with some of them swept away, along with a イスラム教寺院 and an army 地位，任命する.
"Sixteen of the dead were 申し込む／申し出ing 祈りs in the イスラム教寺院 when it was swept away by the flood," said Latifur Rehman, a 広報担当者 for the 地方の 災害 管理／経営 当局.
At least eight of the 犠牲者s were 兵士s, and another eight 団体／死体s were swept over the 国境 into Afghanistan, 上級の 地元の 公式の／役人 Osama Waraich said.
Rehman said a 軍の-led 救助（する） and 救済 操作／手術 was now 進行中で, with ヘリコプターs 存在 used to reach the 影響する／感情d people and 供給する them with テントs, food and 医療の 援助（する）.
Falah-i-Insaniat 創立／基礎, the charitable wing of the banned Lashkar-e-Taiba 交戦的な group, were の中で the first at the scene 供給するing 救済.
An AFP reporter in Ursoon said 生存者s who had lost their homes were waiting for 援助（する） under open skies surrounded by mud and 破片 where their village once stood.
Nearby villages had received flood 警告s from the 地元の 当局, but Ursoon was not 警報d in time, the reporter said.
分かれて, two Chinese engineers were killed and five Pakistani 労働者s 負傷させるd when the 強い雨s 原因（となる）d the roof of a construction 場所／位置 to 崩壊（する） at Tarbela Dam, also in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa 州, Rehman said.
- Deadly rains
総理大臣 Nawaz Sharif's office 問題／発行するd a 声明 表明するing his grief and 悲しみ.
強い雨s and flash flood （人命などを）奪う，主張する many 犠牲者s each year, with 貧しく built homes across the country, 特に in 田舎の areas, susceptible to 崩壊（する） during th e 年次の spring and 季節風 rains in July-August
In April rains and 地滑りs killed 127 people in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, the Gilgit-Baltistan 地域 and Pakistani Kashmir.
During the 雨の season last summer, 激しい downpours and flooding killed 81 people and 影響する／感情d almost 300,000 across the country.
The worst flooding in 最近の times occurred in 2010 and covered almost a fifth of the country's total land 集まり. Nearly 2,000 people were killed, 20 million 影響する／感情d and 抱擁する tracts of prime 農地 destroyed.
早い 森林伐採 brought about by １０年間s of 違法な logging in the country's north and the growth of farming along the river Indus in the south is believed by 専門家s to have 悪化させるd the 影響s of the 年次の floods.
Energy-餓死するd Pakistan relies on a multitude of dams and 一斉射撃，（質問などの）連発／ダムs to 妨げる Himalayan rivers from flooding and help 会合，会う its 力／強力にする needs, but some academics believe the slowing of rivers 予定 to the structures mean that silt 蓄積するs, 減少（する）ing their capacity.
A 研究 paper （売買）手数料，委託（する）／委員会／権限d by 自然保護 group WWF and published in 2000 looked at さまざまな countries, and 警告するd of 類似の consequences. It 公式文書，認めるd the drainage of wetlands 同様に as 森林伐採 associated with dams led to a loss of natural "sponges" to 吸収する flood waters during 雨の season.
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Pakistani labourers walk with their donkey carts through flood water に引き続いて 強い雨 in Lahore ?Arif Ali (AFP/とじ込み／提出する)
