Rivers burst, floods kill at least 110 in KP

Rivers burst their banks during monsoon rains, washing away streets, battering a dam and killing at least 110 people in most severe floods in decades in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, officials said Thursday. Hundreds of thousands more were stranded as rescue workers struggled to reach far-flung villages. In the Peshawar area, two elderly men clung to a fence post and each other as a raging torrent swept over their heads, footage on a private television channel showed. It was unclear whether they survived. People were forced to trudge through knee-deep water in some streets in the Swat Valley. A newly constructed part of a dam in the Charsadda district collapsed, while crops were soaked in many areas. At least 10 people died near Peshawar when their homes collapsed.

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