Vehicles and motorcyclists drive through a flooded road after heavy rainfall in Peshawar, Pakistan. Intense rain in the country has claimed lives and spread destruction in several northern districts.
Residents of a northwestern Pakistani district where devastating floods have killed more than 200 people said on Monday they were too scared to go back to their deluged homes as authorities warned of more rains to come.
“Everybody is scared. Children are scared. They cannot sleep,” said Sahil Khan, a 24-year-old university student.
He was speaking to a Reuters team from a rooftop in the district of Buner, where he and 15 other villagers had climbed to escape any more flooding amid a fresh spell of rain on Monday.
“It was like a doomsday scenario,” he said of the flash floods caused by hea