LAHORE / ISLAMABAD, Sept 8: Rain, heavy at places, lashed the country on Saturday and weathermen said there were chances of heavy downpour in south Punjab, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Sindh and Balochistan on Sunday.

Flash floods are expected in nullahs and hill channels of Dera Ghazi Khan, Nasirabad, Sibi and Zhob divisions. And landslides are feared in Azad Kashmir.

The Pakistan Meteorological Department said the weather system would become quite intense in the next 24 hours, generating widespread thunderstorm/rain with isolated heavy to very heavy rainfall over south Punjab’s Bahawalpur, Multan, Dera Ghazi Khan and Sahiwal divisions, northeast Balochistan, and upper and eastern Sindh.

Scattered thunderstorm/ rain with isolated heavy rainfall was expected over Kashmir, north and northeast Punjab. Isolated thundershower was expected over Gilgit-Baltistan.

Heavy rainfall was also forecast for Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on Sunday and Monday which could cause flash floods in lower parts of the province, including Kohat, Bannu and Dera Ismail Khan divisions.

On Saturday, temperatures dropped considerably in most parts of the country and there were reports of light snowfall from Astore and a couple of other places in Gilgit-Baltistan.

Rain, which continued till late in the night, was light but persistent in Lahore. The maximum temperature plunged to 28 degrees centigrade which was just two degrees higher than the minimum temperature the previous night. It was a bit cold for motorcyclists.

The Met Office reported that Larkana received 56m of rain, Multan 54mm, Mithi 53mm, Thatta 43mm, Peshawar city 34mm Moenjodaro 26mm, Murree 25mm, Saidu Sharif 24mm, Mirpurkhas 22mm, Badin, Bahawalnagar and Islamabad Zero Point 21mm (each), Pattan and Lahore airport 20mm, Hunza, Bunji and Peshawar airport 18mm, Faisalabad 17mm, Lahore city 15mm, Toba Tek Singh, Bahawalpur airport, Gilgit 14mm, Gujranwala, Islamabad airport, Parachinar, Chilas 10mm, Nawabshah and Dera Ghazi Khan 9mm, Mandi Bahauddin, Dir, Khanpur and Sahiwal 8mm, Okara and Kakul 7mm, Balakot, Padidan and Jacobabad 6mm, Lower Dir and Jhelum 5mm, Mirkhani, Karachi airport, Khuzdar, Rawalakot, Mangla, Bahawalpur city and Astore 4mm.

Our Staff Reporter adds from Hyderabad: There were reports of devastation from some parts of Sindh, including Thatta and Nawabshah where three people died in rain-related incidents.

The rain also caused disruption in electricity and water supply and about 75 per cent of Hyderabad, including Qasimabad and Latifabad, went without electricity for many hours.

A man and a woman were electrocuted when a live wire fell on them when they were passing under a high-transmission power line on their motorbike in the limits of Sakhi Pir police station.

The deceased were identified as Abid, 30, and Sanubar, 35, who lived in Latifabad.

Mehboob Ali Soomro, 15, drowned in a drain in Fateh Mohammad Soomro village of Thatta district. Eyewitnesses said he had slipped into the drain.

Heavy rain was also reported from Mirpurkhas, Tharparkar and Dadu districts.

Two people died in Nawabshah when roof of their house caved in on Friday night.