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KARACHI - At least 228 people have been killed in Pakistan after collapsed houses and severed electrical cables brought devastation to Karachi in the aftermath of heavy rain and thunderstorms. A further 200 people were injured.
The death toll from the storms had initially been placed at 43 but rose after another 185 bodies were counted at the city's morgue.
"Forty-three bodies were counted in city hospitals last night and now 185 bodies have been identified in the Edhi Foundation morgue," said Sardar Ahmed, Minister of Health for Sindh province, of which the port city of Karachi is the capital.
"These deaths are caused by electrocution, falling trees, house collapses and road accidents."
In neighbouring India, at least 35 people have died in two days of heavy rains in the southern state of Andhra Pradesh, where aid workers backed by military helicopters battled to provide food for 200,000 people displaced by monsoon floods. In northern areas of Bangladesh, about 30 people have died of diarrhoea and other water-borne diseases over the past week after floods in the Brahmaputra river.
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