A total of 262 people have been reported killed and 815 injured so far this year as torrential monsoon rains and flash floods wreak havoc throughout the country, Pakistan’s National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) said Monday. Over 70, 000 houses have also been reportedly damaged, with 51,027 partially and 19,465 completely damaged, said the official statistics which are updated until Sept 16.
Approximately 3,883 villages, spreading over an area of over 1,345,531 acres, have been affected by the torrential rains.
DawnNews reported that the most casualties were reported in Sindh province, according to the data, with 106 people killed and 361 injured, and a total of approximately 273,000 people affected by the torrential rains. At least 58 people were killed and 272 injured in Punjab due to rain related accidents, with over 857,000 people affected in total in the province.
Torrential rains and flooding killed 39 people and injured about 35 others in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, with 104 houses damaged. Meanwhile, 25 people were killed in Balochistan. Pakistani-administered Kashmir (AJK) region recorded 31 deaths, while 3 people were reported killed in Islamabad region.
Expect more ra ins and thunderstorms: Heavy rains and thunderstorms are expected during the next 24 hours in several areas of Upper Punjab, Kashmir and scattered places in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan Meteorological Department said on Monday. During the last 24 hours, rainstorms poured down in some areas of Punjab, Peshawar, Hazara Division, Kashmir and Gilgit-Baltistan. In Mianwali, 65 millimeters (mm) of rainfall was recorded, while in Gujranwala, 41 mm; Sahiwal, 39 mm; Faisalabad, 25 mm; Peshawar, 12 mm; Lahore and Bahawalnagar, 9 mm; Rawalpindi 8 mm, and in Islamabad, Garhi Dopatta and Okara 2 mm.
