Rescue boat capsizes in Pakistan, killing 5

AFP :

A boat rescuing people from floods in eastern Pakistan flipped over, killing a 70-year-old woman and four children, authorities said Sunday.

Monsoon rains over the past week swelled three major rivers that cut through Punjab province, Pakistan’s agricultural heartland and home to nearly half of its 255 million people.

“The incident happened when an underwater object hit Rescue 1122 boat,” the provincial disaster management authority’s director general Irfan Ali Kathia told local media.