SARGODHA: At least four of a family died and a child was injured on Friday when the roof of a house collapsed due to heavy rains in Sargodha.

The house belonged to Imam Bakhsh, a resident of Jhawarian. The husband, wife and their two children died while a child was severely injured. The child was taken to a hospital for medical treatment.

The floods and landslides from days of heavy monsoon rains have now claimed at least 264 lives in Pakistan. In Punjab alone, 184 people have been killed in rain- and flood-related incidents and crops over hundreds of thousands of acres have been damaged.

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The National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) said late Thursday more than 1.8 million were now affected by the raging torrents — a figure that includes both those stranded at home and those who fled after the floods hit.

The floodwaters are moving downstream through Punjab, inundating huge swathes of farmland in the country's breadbasket and most prosperous area.

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