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At least 40 people were killed and many more were missing after a bridge collapsed in north-western Pakistan as seasonal rains flooded the area, police said on Sunday.
Updated : Nov 19, 2013, 11:17 PM IST
Ten bodies were retrieved from a flooded river overnight and on Sunday, police official Iftikhar Khan said, while 30 bodies were pulled out yesterday in Mardan town, some 50 km north-east of Peshawar.
He said troops had joined the rescue work and most of the city, including the hospitals, was inundated.
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Dozens of people have died in landslides and floods caused by rain torrents in