According to the National Disaster Management Authority, the vast majority of victims were registered in the mountainous area of Khyber Bakhtongua, where at least 328 people have died since Friday (15)
Monsoon winds in Pakistan They have caused floods and landslides that have killed more than 350 people in the past 48 hours, especially in the province of Khaybar Bakhtongua in the northwest of the country, while the authorities warn that a new and intense stage of rain begins on Sunday. The National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) confirmed in its latest report that the vast majority of the victims have been registered in the mountainous area of Khyber Bakhtongua, where at least 328 people have died since Friday.
The province has become a catastrophe, with 11 affected provinces, according to a spokesman for the province's government. “The total number of people affected by the floods is 3,817,” the spokesman, Mohamed Ali Saif, said in a statement. The authorities and rescue teams are struggling to reach the most remote areas, where they fear that dozens of people are still stuck. The floods destroyed housing, bridges and killing, heads of livestock, which complicates the aid.
With these last numbers, the dead balance in Pakistan since the beginning of the seasonal wind season on June 26 has reached 645, and the injury exceeds 900, according to NDMA data. The Pakistani Ministry of Meteorological (PMD) has warned that the seasonal wind currents will intensify from Sunday to Thursday, to be held widely of “very strong” rain in the Kaximira and Punjab regions, which can cause new sudden floods and intimidate the river.
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The Disaster Management Authority in Punjab Province has already issued red alerts for various regions due to the increase in river levels, which are fed by rain and ice removal from ice rivers in the north of the country. This new catastrophe highlights the weakness of Pakistan in the harsh weather phenomena, to which scientists are attributed Climate. Floods for the year 2010 and 2022 and now 2025 are increasingly set a series of severe disasters. In 2022, unprecedented rains were immersed in a third of the country, killing more than 1700 people and causing economic losses more than $ 30 billion.
*With information from EFE
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