Approximately 50 people have been killed in Pakistan after three days of heavy rainfall across the country.
According to a report published in Al Jazeera, Pakistan’s National Disaster Management Authority has stated that at least 19 people died in northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, 12 in southern Sindh province, eight in Punjab province and 10 in the country’s scenic northern Gilgit-Baltistan region following the heavy rain in the past three days.
Heavy rains have created flash flood like situation with nearly 100 homes damaged. The rainfall also caused a breach in flooded main canal, swamping villages in the Sindh province. Rescue forces have been deployed in the affected area on Sunday.
The rainfall that began last week continued on Sunday with major flooding in the streets of Lahore and disruption in Karachi, the capital of the Sindh province. As per the information received from the Meteorological Department, heavy rainfall will probably continue this week as well.
The military on Sunday informed that it had rescued more than 100 people from Dadu district in Sindh.