ISLAMABAD/PESHAWAR – Heavy hailstorms and rain battered parts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Rawalpindi and Islamabad causing damage to vehicles, windscreens, and solar panels on Wednesday.
According to the Pakistan Meteorological Department, there is a possibility of more heavy rains in Attock, Chakwal, Gujranwala, Azad Kashmir, and Gilgit-Baltistan. Reports said a vehicle was swept away in a flood in Landi Kotal and many others were damaged.
A sudden spell of rain and hailstorm lashed Islamabad, prompting immediate response from the district ad-ministration. According to officials, teams were deployed across the city to manage the situation and in-spect vulnerable areas. Islamabad received heavy rainfall and hailstorm disrupting daily activities in several parts of the capital.
In Islamabad and Rawalpindi, the windows of vehicles were broken due to hailstorm, and the windows of houses also were broken. In Rawalpindi, the heat wave spell was broken as 9mm of rain was recorded in Golra and 2mm in Bogra. PPP Senator Sherry Rehman termed the rainfall scenes caught as being “insane”, and that hail was “coming down like pellets”.
