Heavy rains lead to 14 deaths in Pakistan

PESHAWAR — Pakistani officials say heavy rains have led to the deaths of at least 14 people in different parts of the country.

Latifur Rehman, a disaster management official in northwest Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, said yesterday that heavy rain caused about 120 houses to collapse in the province and killed at least eight people.

Police officer Hidayat Baluch says heavy rain caused the wall of a factory to buckle in the town of Hub in southwest Baluchistan province, killing six people, including four children. Three people were injured.