MULTAN, Pakistan (AP) — A rescue boat evacuating people displaced by floods capsized in Pakistan’s eastern Punjab province this week, killing nine people, government officials said Thursday.

The boat, carrying 20 people, overturned Tuesday on the swollen Indus River when strong winds and fast currents caused it to lose balance, said Musarrat Jabeen, the region’s top government administrator.

Jabeen said rescuers initially recovered five bodies during an hours-long operation. By early Thursday, four more bodies were pulled from the water by teams including Pakistan Army divers.

The dead included women and children, she added.

On Saturday, five people died in a similar incident on the outskirts of Jalalpur Pirwala city after the Chenab and Sutej rivers flooded the region following water

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