38mm rainfall proves enough to bring Karachi to a standstill
(WorldNews Pakistan)

A brief but heavy spell of the ongoing winter season’s first rain in Karachi, which began late on Sunday night, brought the city life to a standstill with almost all major thoroughfares of the city inundated on several places, many caved-in roads and streets causing agonising traffic jams and the entire city plunged into darkness due to power breakdown. As the downpour disrupted power system of the city, four men died as they received electric shocks from poles and electrical appliances. Compared to Lahore which takes at least 250 to 350 millimetres (mm) of rainfall to develop a situation of urban flooding, Karachi’s streets were completely inundated with a mere 38 mm of rainfall...