August 02, 2006	Wednesday	Rajab 6, 1427

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QUETTA, Aug 1: Five people, including two children, were swept away by torrents following after heavy rains lashed the provincial capital and northern and central Balochistan on Tuesday.

Monsoon rains which started on Sunday continued till Tuesday night.

Many villages in Bolan, Awaran, Lasbela, Kalat, Pishin and Qila Saifullah districts received heavy rain where over two dozen houses either collapsed or were washed away by flash floods. Two bridges over seasonal streams falling on link-roads in Awaran and Muslim Bagh areas caved in because of which roads were closed.

Sources said bodies of two children were taken out from a stream in the Kalat area on Tuesday. The deceased were identified as Saeed Ahmed and Mohammad Ishaq.

Two motorcyclists, Abdul Rahim and Abdul Jabbar, drowned while trying to cross the Hub-Sakran River in Lasbela district while one Khalid Hussain was washed away in Hub.

A breach in a small protection dam at the Nari River inundated three villages, while four persons were injured when their house collapsed.

Quetta received heavy rains on Tuesday. All main roads of the provincial capital were inundated, affecting the civic life throughout the day.

The city’s low-lying areas were inundated as the local drainage system failed when massive downpour flowed into the city from nearby hills. Open drains and sewers overflowed.

Online adds: A Quetta-bound car from Karachi overturned near the National Highway, killing two people and injuring another man.