Pakistan’s Infrastructure Collapse Turns School Holidays Into Death Traps For Children Amid Monsoon Rains | World News
In a recent disaster, almost half of the 266 people killed in Pakistan this year were children during national school holidays, and once again revealed the chronic failure of the government to protect the most vulnerable citizens.
According to Geo News, 126 children have been killed since June 26 due to Pakistan’s more severe monsoon rains than normal. Most deaths occurred in Punjab, where rainfall levels were reported to be 70 percent higher than last year.
They left the school closed because of their closing, and they were sacrificed to electric waters, flash floods, collapses and drowning.
Punjab Provincial Disaster Management Agency Mazhar Hussain, “children are very vulnerable to this situation,” he admitted, but the statement stressed not only proactive security measures.
According to Geo News, “They play in water, can be bath and electric shocks.” He said.
The expression emphasizes the lack of public infrastructure and emergency protocols in a country that confronts monsoon rains every year.
Geo News, Pakistan’s National Disaster Management Institution (NDMA), hundreds of more injured and so far 266 people have been killed throughout the country.
Although the worst of the monsoon season is usually expected in August, the rains became particularly destructive this year.
In Pakistan, a landslide swept vehicles in a popular tourism zone in the occupied Gilgit-Baltistan.
Previously, in late June, 13 tourists were killed after being sweeping by flash floods while hosting a river coast.
The monsoon season provides 70 percent to 80 percent of its annual rainfall for South Asia and continues in Pakistan from June to September. Annual precipitation is very important for agriculture and food safety, affecting the lives of countless farmers, it also causes destruction.
During the monsoon in 2022, the floods left one -third of the nation under water and resulted in a loss of 1,700 lives. The government’s reactive approach pays for ordinary citizens, especially children, state negligence price every year.
