<div><span style="font-size: 1rem;">Pakistani search teams found the wreckage of a helicopter that went down the previous day in the country’s flood-stricken southwest, the military said Tuesday. An army general and five others on board were killed, it said.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>The previous evening, the aircraft had lost contact with the air-traffic control tower in Baluchistan province, while flying on a relief mission in a flood-hit area in the southwest..</div><div><br></div><div>A military statement identified the deceased officer as regional commander Lt. Gen. Sarfraz Ali. It said that, according to an initial probe, the crash happened due to bad weather.</div><div><br></div><div>The helicopter was part of aid efforts in the flood-affected in Baluchistan, where rains and flash floods since June have killed nearly 150 people.. The military provided no further details.</div><div><br></div><div>Pakistan's President Arif Ali, Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif and other senior politicians offered their condolences to the victims' families</div><div><br></div><div>Pakistan is currently using helicopters and boats to evacuate flood victims from various parts of the country, including Baluchistan and Rajanpur, a district in the eastern Punjab province.</div><div><br></div><div>Rains and flash floods have killed nearly 500 people across the country since June, when rains started lashing different parts of the country, triggering floods.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>Since then, rescue workers backed by the military have evacuated thousands of marooned people, including women and children, from various parts of Pakistan.</div><div><br></div><div>More rains are expected this week in Pakistan, where the monsoon season runs from July through September. - UNB</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>