Week of heavy rain, floods kills 46 people in Pakistan

Almost one week of heavy monsoon rains and flash floods in Pakistan killed at least 46 people and were more severely injured with more severe air.

National Disaster Management Institution and State Emergency officials, deaths are caused by abnormally strong downpour, he said.

Irfan Virk, Deputy Director of the Pakistan Meteorology Department, “We are waiting for normal rains in the monsoon season and warnings to take precautionary measures were given to the relevant authorities.” He said.

Virk warned that the “extreme situation” seen during destructive floods in 2022 will not repeat. The rains left a third of the country under water, killed 1737 people, and caused widespread destruction.

The deaths of last week include 13 tourists from a family swept on Friday. Four other family members were rescued from the flooded Swat River in the province of Northwest Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

A state of emergency service spokesman Bilal interest, rescuers found 12 bodies from the group and divers continued to look for the rest of the victim on Monday, he said.

The incident suffered a common condemnation online for what many of them call slow reaction by emergency services.