{"id":1417,"date":"2026-07-14T09:25:23","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T09:25:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytherepublic.com\/?p=1417"},"modified":"2026-07-14T09:25:23","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T09:25:23","slug":"heavy-rain-collapses-house-roof-killing-11-in-northwest-pakistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytherepublic.com\/bn\/2026\/07\/14\/heavy-rain-collapses-house-roof-killing-11-in-northwest-pakistan\/","title":{"rendered":"Heavy rain collapses house roof, killing 11 in northwest Pakistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At least 11 people, most of them women and children, were killed overnight after heavy rain caused the roof of a mud-brick house to collapse in Pakistan&#8217;s northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, police and rescue officials said Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The incident took place in Kohat district, said Bilal Faizi, spokesperson for the provincial emergency service.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Rescue teams recovered the bodies from the debris and handed them over to their families for burial, Faizi said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Meanwhile, heavy monsoon rain also battered the Gilgit-Baltistan region on Monday, triggering landslides that blocked several roads and damaged homes, according to regional emergency services.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Authorities have advised tourists to avoid travelling to northern Pakistan because of the increased risk of landslides and flash floods.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Pakistan experiences heavy monsoon rainfall every year, and the seasonal downpours often cause floods and landslides, leading to deaths and widespread destruction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In 2022, record monsoon rains and devastating floods submerged nearly one-third of the country, killing 1,739 people and causing an estimated $30 billion in losses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Post by Desk News<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least 11 people, most of them women and children, were killed overnight after heavy rain caused the roof of a mud-brick house to collapse in Pakistan&#8217;s northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa&hellip;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1418,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytherepublic.com\/bn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytherepublic.com\/bn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytherepublic.com\/bn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytherepublic.com\/bn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytherepublic.com\/bn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1417"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailytherepublic.com\/bn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1419,"href":"https:\/\/dailytherepublic.com\/bn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1417\/revisions\/1419"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytherepublic.com\/bn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytherepublic.com\/bn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytherepublic.com\/bn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytherepublic.com\/bn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}