More than 1.2 million people have been affected, while some 3,093 villages and 8,658 houses damaged due to floods in various areas of the country, National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) said on Friday.
An NDMA spokesman said that the recent floods killed 170 people, while 122 persons sustained injuries due to floods related incident. As many as 3,093 villages have been affected in floods, of which 2,278 are situated in Sindh, 512 in Punjab, 17 in Azad Kashmir and 286 in Gilgit-Baltistan. About 449,460 persons have been affected by floods in Punjab, 625,641 in Sindh and 136,000 in Gilgit-Baltistan. Out of 8,658 flood damaged houses, 3,439 houses have been destroyed in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, 3,153 in Punjab 798 in Balochistan, 321 in Azad Kashmir, 812 in Gilgit-Baltistan and 162 houses have been damaged in FATA.