Deadly monsoon rains lash Pakistan, killing dozens
Disaster officials said on Friday that heavy monsoon rains triggered landslides and flash floods in a remote area of Northern Pakistan and killed at least 117 people in the last 24 hours.
According to the Provincial Disaster Management Authority (PDMA), the majority of deaths were recorded in mountainous Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
Regional Disaster Administration officials said seven people were killed in Kashmir, led by Pakistan.
PDMA spokesman Anwar Shehzad told AFP, “So far, more than 110 people died in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, cloud explosions, flash floods and roof collapses.” He said.
Authorized, 60 people were injured, he added.
Bunder, Bajaur, Mansehra and Battagram’ın said that the disaster was shot, he said.
According to AFP photographs, a crowd gathered around a excavator who translates a mud wetted hill in Bajaur, a tribal region adjacent to Afghanistan.
The funeral prayers began in a nearby paddock, people mourned in front of a few corpses covered by blankets.
The Meteorological Department released a violent rain warning for the northwest to avoid “unnecessary exposure to vulnerable areas”.
In the part of Kashmir, a region divided into Pakistan, in the Indian part, the rescuers fell from a flood of Himalaya, killing at least 60 people and washing dozens of more after washing more than mud and rubble.
The monsoon season brings South Asia about three quarters of its annual rainfall for agriculture and food safety, but it also brings destruction.
During the season, the landslides and flash floods, which usually started in June and became easier until the end of September, are common.
Scientists say that climate change makes the world weather more excessive and more frequent.
Pakistan is one of the most vulnerable countries in the world for the effects of climate change and is often struggling with excessive weather events with increasing population.
The heavy rains that have been beating Pakistan since the beginning of the Summer Monsoon, which is defined as “unusual” by the authorities, killed more than 320 people, approximately half children.
Most of the deaths caused collapsed houses, flashes and electricals.
In July, Punjab, which hosts about half of Pakistan’s 255 million people, recorded 73 percent more rainfall and more deaths than the previous year.
In 2022, monsoon floods sank one -third of the country and killed 1,700 people.
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