MUZAFFARABAD: The death toll from floods in Pakistan passed 900 on Sunday as nearly 50 people were confirmed dead in the capital of Pakistani-controlled Kashmir, officials said.

"Forty-seven people have been killed and another 39 injured by floods in different parts of Muzaffarabad" since last week, Pakistani Kashmir`s State Disaster Management Authority chief Farooq Niaz told AFP.

The floods have killed at least 862 people around the northwest Pakistani province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.



BDST: 1551 HRS, August 01, 2010