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Pakistan’s second-largest city was lashed by its heaviest rainfall in more than four decades on Thursday, leaving streets, houses, shops and hospitals inundated. Rescuers were scrambling to move people out of impacted neighbourhoods in the eastern city of Lahore while sanitation workers were employing heavy machines to drain water from hospitals and residential compounds, local official Farooq Ahmed told dpa. Police and other agencies were also removing cars that were abandoned by motorists as roads and underpasses became flooded, Ahmed said. More than 350 millimetres of rainfall was recoded i…

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