Death toll after monsoon floods in Pakistan rises to more than 320 | Pakistan
The country’s disaster authority said on Saturday that the mortality rate of heavy monsoon rains that triggered flash floods in Northern Pakistan has risen at least 321 people in the last 48 hours.
According to the National Disaster Management Authority, 307, the majority of deaths were recorded in the state of mountainous Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
Nine more people were killed in Kashmir, ruled by Pakistan, and five of them died in the North Gilgit-Baltistan region.
Most flash floods and collapsed houses were killed, 21 people were injured.
The Meteorology Department issued a violent rain warning for the northwest of Pakistan for the next few hours and called on people to take “precautionary measures ..
The provincial government declared the mountainous mountainous regions that were affected by disaster.
In the meantime, the provincial rescue agency AFP’ye approximately 2,000 rescue workers to save the bodies from the wreckage and conducting aid operations in nine affected regions, he said.
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s rescue agency spokesman Bilal Ahmed Faizi, “Heavy rains, landslides in various fields and washed roads, especially in the transport of heavy machines and ambulances, causing significant difficulties in providing help,” he said.
“Due to the closure of the road in most areas, rescue workers are traveling to carry out operations in remote areas.
“They are trying to evacuate the survivors, but very few people are replaced by the deaths that their relatives or loved ones are stuck in the wreckage.”
