QUETTA, March 22: At least 12 people were killed in Kohlu and Zhob areas of Balochistan as a fresh spell of heavy rain caused flash floods in different areas. Train service between Sibi and Jacobabad was suspended and a large number of villages in Sibi, Nasirabad, Pishin and Zhob districts are reported to have been inundated. According reports reaching here eight people were swept away by water torrents in the Kahan area of Kohlu and four young girls were killed when the roof of their house collapsed in Killi Machan village of Pishin district.

The seasonal Tani Nullah in Suri Dara of Kahan is in high flood. Heavy rain caused havoc in Nasirabad and Sibi with Bolan, Nari and Lehri rivers reported to be in high flood. Several hundred villages have been affected by a breach in the bank of Lehri river.

“At least 300 villages have been inundated in Nasirabad district,” District Nazim Babu Amin Umrani said, adding that the standing wheat crop in the area has been destroyed. Army troops and Frontier Works Organization personnel have launched a relief operation in the area.