Five people are killed as hail and thunderstorms rage across the nation.

Five individuals died Wednesday as a result of heavy rain and thunderstorms in various sections of the nation.

Cars and property were damaged as the rain and hailstorm pounded areas of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and the twin cities of Rawalpindi and Islamabad.

Floods brought on by the rain also impacted traffic on Peshawar-Torkham Road and other areas in KP.

Reports said a man died when a wall of a mosque in Rawalpindi’s Ratta Amral area collapsed. Two people were killed in Gujar Khan when a wall collapsed.

According to a source, a trader was killed by a lightning strike in the Pull Magsan area of Muzaffargarh.

A soldier was killed by a lightning strike at his bunker in the Landi Kotal area of KP, according to reports of a similar incidence. The victim was identified as Bara resident Sepoy Ilyas Khan.

Gusty winds damaged wheat harvests in a number of KP locations. According to reports, numerous vehicles were damaged and one was washed away in a flood near Landi Kotal.

Vehicles and private property were damaged in Rawalpindi and Islamabad as a result of the hailstorm.

The Pakistan Meteorological Department reports that Attock, Chakwal, Gujranwala, Azad Kashmir, and Gilgit-Baltistan could see a lot of rain.

Hailstorms in many parts of Rawalpindi and Islamabad caused car windows to break, as well as home windows to break.

Rainfall of 2 mm in Bogra and 9 mm in Golra halted the heat wave spell in Rawalpindi.

District administration officers remained in the field on the instructions of the Islamabad DC to ensure remedial measures amid torrential rain and hailstorm in the federal capital.

The assistant commissioners visited the low-lying areas, and CDA and MC teams worked to minimise inconvenience to the public.

PPP Senator Sherry Rehman took to X and called the weather “insane” with hails “coming down like pellets.”

“This is extreme weather volatility driven by climate change, where anomalies proliferate. Not a random natural event. And related entirely to human actions like emissions, which are growing because of addiction to dirty energy,” she said in a post on X (formerly Twitter).

The Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium also was drenched but the PSL match between Islamabad United and Multan Sultans was held.