Flash floods devastate Buner, Pakistan after rare cloudburst kills hundreds


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  • Sunday, 17 Aug 2025

Gul Rasheed, 60, inspects a damaged car following a storm that caused heavy rains and flooding, in Bayshonai Kalay, Buner district, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, Pakistan, August 17, 2025. REUTERS/Akhtar Soomro TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY

BAYSHONAI KALAY, Pakistan (Reuters) -Aziz Ahmed, a local schoolteacher in Buner, northwestern Pakistan said the thunder accompanying recent torrential rains was so loud he thought the "end of the world had come".

Water, rocks and trees were swept down the mountainside after two days of intense monsoon rains, burying people and homes in their path.

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