02 January 2005	Sunday	20 Ziqa'ad 1425

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PESHAWAR, Jan 1: At least 10 people were killed on Saturday, six of them from the same family, as heavy rains continue to lash several areas of the country for the past three days, officials said.

"A couple and their four children died when their house collapsed in Nawan Shaher" near Abbottabad, 186km northeast of Peshawar, the provincial Crisis Management Cell's official, Muhammad Anwar, told AFP.

"They were buried during their sleep when their mud-house collapsed due to non-stop rain," he said.

Anwar said several houses were damaged due to heavy rain in some other places of the NWFP but details of casualties were not immediately available.

The Meteorological Office has recorded 90 millimetres of rain in Peshawar since Thursday.

Several mud-houses also collapsed in Kachagarhi Afghan refugee camp on the outskirts of Peshawar but no loss of life was reported, officials said.

Rain and snow in Balochistan left four people dead, officials said.

Three people were killed in remote Panjgor town when the wall of a house caved in, while a man was electrocuted in Dalbandin near the Afghan border, they said. -AFP