New flood alert issued for rain-battered Pakistan
Pakistan, rescue teams continued to look for missing people in the north of the country, as a flood warning in the southern regions where severe floods killed hundreds of people.
The new warning on Wednesday is for the same southern regions shot by the climate -based disaster Deluges, who killed thousands of people in 2022.
National Emergency Situations Operation Center, up to 100 millimeters in the next 24 hours that the rain can sink the highways, the transportation can disrupt and Karachi, Hyderabad, Thatta, Badin, Mirpurkhas and Sukur damage power and telecommunication networks in the southern province of Sindh said.
Disaster Management Agency, mostly in the North Gilgit-Baltistan region and on Tuesday, where heavy rains left the streets under the floods and broke daily life, at least 41 people were killed in the country-related rainworth in the last 24 hours.
The schools in Karachi remain closed.
Pakistan has been subjected to normal monsoon rains since June 26, killing at least 746 people.
The northwest rescuers suppressed about 150 people missing in the Bunner Region with a brutal quest, where large rocks and floods carrying mud were swept from the villages, straightened the houses and left the rubble piles.
Army Sniffer Dogs helped the search teams, worried relatives, while looking at the debris drew more bodies.
Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and the country’s powerful Army Chief Field Marshal Asim Munir visited Swat Valley and flooding areas in Bunner on Wednesday.
In a speech made on television, Şerif promised the rapid repair of financial compensation and damaged infrastructure for survivors, while warning to the residents to prevent building near river banks.
Emergency Service Spokesman Mohammad Suhail said that the death fee in Bunner climbed to 290 after more bodies were rescued.
Rescue teams managed to distribute tents, blankets, cooking tools, ready -to -settle foods and clean drinking water, others tried to restore the power in the ruined area.
Most of the damaged roads were reopened in Bunner.
The survivors told the terrible stories of sudden flood waters carrying rocks and allowing people to run to safer floors.
Many quiet government blamed the government for not giving an early warning.
