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Published 27 Apr, 2015 06:11pm

'Mini cyclone' wrecks Peshawar

A severe storm in northwest Pakistan, dubbed a "mini-cyclone" killed 44 people and injured more than 200, officials said.

Fallen trees, rubble from buildings and mobile phone towers blocked several main roads in Peshawar while flood water from torrential rainfall reached three feet (one metre) deep in some parts of the city of more than three million people.

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