DHAKA: At least 40 people have been killed in rain-related incidents across Punjab in Pakistan since Wednesday night, police and rescue sources said on Thursday.

However, fifteen deaths were reported from Lahore and a total of seven from the districts of Sialkot and Gujranwala, reports DAWN.

“At least 25 people have been killed in different incidents of roof collapses in Punjab province during the last 24 hours,” Jam Sajjad, a spokesman for rescue services told media.

He said the dead included women and children, and 28 people had been injured.

Nevertheless, three of the dead died due to electrocution – one person in Lahore and two others in the eastern town of Kasur.

Rizwan Naseer, the director general of rescue services in Punjab confirmed the toll and said the injured were being moved to hospitals.

“We have been removing the debris to search for survivors and the injured,” Naseer said, adding that the toll was likely to rise as more information came in from around the province.

Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif has announced Rs500,000 aid for the deceased persons and Rs100,000 aid for those who were injured in monsoon rains.

In Pakistani-administered Kashmir, 10 people were killed and four others injured, disaster management agency chairman Akram Sohail told media.

He said there had been some flash flooding in the Himalayan territory and warned that the rivers Jhelum and Neelum were close to overflowing in some places.

Also in Kashmir, three soldiers died in a mudslide near the de facto border with India, which like Pakistan claims the territory as its own.

The current spell is being generated by the first well-marked low pressure of the monsoon season that is moving towards Pakistan via Indian Rajasthan, moist current from the Bay of Bengal and a trough of westerly wave persisting over northern parts of the country.

The Pakistan Meteorological Department had sent out a warning that all rivers in Punjab would likely be in “very high” to “exceptionally high” flood from Sept 5 to 7 because of expected intensification of the current spell of fairly widespread rains reported from various parts of the country.

Pakistan has suffered deadly monsoon floods for at least the last four years – in 2013, 178 people were killed and around 1.5 million affected by flooding around the country.

The floods of 2010 were the worst in Pakistan's history, with 1,800 people killed and 21 million affected in what became a major humanitarian crisis.

The government has been criticised for not doing more to mitigate against the dangers posed by seasonal rains washing away homes and farmland.

BDST: 0305 HRS, SEP 5, 2014