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Flash floods kill at least 159 people in Pakistan after cloudburst

9 ljf 3 8/15/2025, 4:11:30 PM theguardian.com ↗

Comments (3)

ljf · 2h ago
The embedded video is awful - watching houses washed away.

The more regular occurrence of these cloud bursts and floods is worrying.

pengaru · 2h ago
overpopulation driving people to build in known flood plains is... something
throwup238 · 2h ago
This is Pakistan, not Texas or Florida. They build in floodplains because that’s where the fertile land is. The floods dissolve minerals in rock and deposit it in the floodplain, creating very productive arable land.