The 2009 Karachi floods (Urdu: سيلاب کراچی ) in Pakistan's financial centre, Karachi, have killed at least 26 people.[2][3][4] The death toll is expected to rise,[2][3] and more than 150 people have been injured in a series of related incidents.[1][5][6] The floods are the result of the heaviest rains in the region in thirty years.[5]