Traffic on RCD highway suspended due to flash floods

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KHUZDAR: Vehicular traffic remained suspended on Saturday between Khuzdar and Karachi on RCD Highway for several hours because of flash floods in Lasbela district.

Hundreds of passenger coaches, trucks and other vehicles were stuck up at both end of the highway after heavy rains lashed the district during the past three days.

The flash flood was reported in Khata River near Uthal and other seasonal rivers in the area.

Published in Dawn, April 5th, 2015

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