By IRNA
Islamabad : Over eighty people have been killed in a lightning in Pakistan's North West Frontier Province (NWFP), state radio reported on Saturday.
The lightning hit three villages in upper Dir District of NWFP Friday night.
Nine houses in village Nash Namal, Gar Kohi and Jaba were washed away by the flood water caused by rains in the area, Radio Pakistan reported.
Relief and rescue teams have been sent to the affected area. So far 38 dead bodies have been recovered from the debris, the radio reported.
Local media has put death toll at 100 people, including women and children.
More than 20 houses, a mosque and dozens of cattle heads were washed away on Friday evening in the flood, local people and police officials said.
"We have retrieved 72 bodies so far from the river and the number of dead might increase to about 100 as people are still busy searching for bodies swept away by the flood," a local councilor Nisar Hamza said.
Volunteers had been engaged in the rescue work, pulling out bodies from Usheri River, which passes through the affected area.
He said that due to darkness it had become difficult to continue the rescue work and to recover more bodies from the river.