Pakistan鈥檚 second-largest city of Lahore was deluged with record-breaking rainfall on Thursday, the national weather agency said, with hospitals flooded, power interrupted and streets submerged in the metropolis home to 13 million.
The eastern city was lashed by almost 360 millimetres of rain in three hours, the Pakistan Meteorological Department said, breaking a previous record of 332 millimetres over three hours in July 1980.
Over the past three days, 24 people have been killed by rainfall in the country鈥檚 mountainous northwestern province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, the Provincial Disaster Management Authority said.
In Lahore, one more person was killed by electrocution as a result of the cloudburst on Thursday morning according to local police.
Two government hospitals in the city near the Indian border reported flooding in their wards, and there were intermittent power outages continuing into the afternoon.
Roads were also submerged, bringing traffic and businesses to a standstill.
Heavy monsoon downpours in India鈥檚 Himalayan foothills triggered flash floods that killed two people, officials said Thursday, with the hunt on for around 28 others still missing.
Fatal floods and landslides are common across India during the annual monsoon but experts say climate change is increasing their frequency, intensity and unpredictability.
Rescue crews worked through the night at two flood sites in the northern state of Himachal Pradesh.
Mandi district official Madan Kumar told AFP that rescuers had recovered two bodies.
鈥極ne other person is seriously injured and eight people are missing,鈥� said Kumar.
In neighbouring Shimla district, a popular tourist destination in India鈥檚 rugged north, local official Abhishek Verma said rescue crews were searching for around 20 more people believed missing.