- Most deaths caused by collapseing walls, ceilings.
- Two died after being beaten by solar panels evicted by bursts.
- Temperatures were up to 6 ° C above normal in May.
At least 32 people have been killed and more than 150 wounds in Pakistan in a week of storms that followed a heat wave, and officials reported on Friday five more deaths.
On Thursday, five people, including a child, were killed in different districts in the northwest of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa during heavy rains and strong winds, said the province’s disaster management authority.
The stormy climate is expected to continue in the northern and central parts of Pakistan until Saturday, according to the Pakistan Department of Meteorology.
Strong wind storms killed 10 people on Tuesday and 14 on Saturday in different parts of the country, one of the most vulnerable to climate change already deal with increasingly frequent extreme climatic events.
Three children were killed on Wednesday in Hyderabad in the province of Sindh, said a senior official.
While most of the deaths were caused by collapse walls and ceilings, at least two people died after being beaten by solar panels evicted by the bursts of whips.
People are killed every year in Pakistan for intense storms, which were unusually frequent this month.
Heat waves in May followed an unusually warm April and a very dry winter.
Temperatures were up to six degrees Celsius above normal in May, reaching its maximum point to more than 48 ° C (118 degrees Fahrenheit).
