A small plane crashed on a highway and caught fire while attempting to make an emergency landing near the city of Beersheba in the Najaf Desert in southern Israel. A man and a woman on the plane died in the accident. The road was closed to traffic.
Monsoon rains have claimed 17 lives in Pakistan, with flash floods hitting Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa provinces. In Swat, nine people drowned while trying to rescue children who fell into a river during a family picnic. Search operations are ongoing for four missing individuals. Eight more deaths were reported in Punjab due to roof collapses, lightning, and floods. Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif expressed sorrow over the tragedy.