Web Desk (LTN NEWS): Quetta, the capital of Balochistan, was cut off from the rest of the country because its main railway line and highway were damaged by rain and haven’t been fixed yet.
The train stopped running on Monday because the track was underwater. The Quetta-Karachi National Highway has been closed for four days because flood water is still flowing over it.
Mansoor Qazi, the deputy commissioner of Sibi, told that the track had been washed away at several points was not true. He made it clear that the track was underwater and that work was being done to drain the water and get trains running again between Quetta and other parts of the country.
Flood water was too high, Mr. Qazi said, so the road between Quetta, Sibi, and Sukkur was closed.
The Bolan Deputy Commissioner has also asked people to stay away from the Quetta-Karachi highway, which was damaged by floods and is not yet open to traffic.
Five people in a wedding party died when they were swept away by a flash flood in the Saranan area of the Pishin district.
The victims, which included three women, two children, and other family members, were traveling in a group when they got stuck in rushing water.
Officials said that male family members in other vehicles saved 11 people, including women and children.
Officials from the rescue team later found the dead bodies.
Other districts, like Musakhail, Zhob, Pishin, Qila Saifullah, Qila Abdullah, Nasirabad, and Lasbela, are still getting a lot of rain. For the past two days, it has been pouring there.
Officials say that hundreds of mud houses in Qila Saifullah, Muslim Bagh, Musakhail, Kohlu, Dera Bugti, and other places were damaged.
A lot of people were stuck in Musakhail because of the constant rain, which caused seasonal streams to flood quickly.
Rescue teams, made up of the army, the Frontier Constabulary, the Levies, and people from the local government, were trying to help people in far-flung parts of the district that were cut off because roads and bridges had been washed away.
A senior official told that three people who went missing after a dam broke in Musakhail and were swept away were found hurt and taken to a hospital.
“So far, 12 people have died in accidents caused by the rain in Musakhail,” a senior local government official told.
In the Sibi district, the rushing Lehri River destroyed homes made of mud in Nasirabad, leaving hundreds of people without a place to live. The area was also getting water from the Goghi Dam, which had reached its full capacity and started to spill over.
“After they were rescued from their flooded villages, people in Sibi were given food, water, tents, and other items as aid,” Sibi Deputy Commissioner Mansoor Qazi told.
After 11 days, the train service between Pakistan and Iran was back up and running. After the Quetta-Taftan railway line was washed away in six places, the service was stopped.
So far, 196 people have died in the province because of the rainy season, which is still going on.
More destruction in GB
On Tuesday, dozens of homes, bridges, and roads were washed away in several Gilgit Baltistan areas as floodwaters continued to rage.
As rivers and streams kept having flash floods, many people lost their homes and crops, farmland, trees, fish farms, irrigation channels, hydroelectric power stations, and transmission infrastructure were destroyed.
Police say that a flood caused by Guchi nullah blocked the Hunza River in the Guru Jaglot area and sent the water into residential areas. This damaged a number of homes and businesses along the river.
Through Babusar Pass, traffic from other parts of the country to GB has been stopped, and the Karakoram Highway has been blocked at Uchar Nullah in the Upper Kohistan area of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
Cloudburst in Neelum Valley
Initial reports say that a cloudburst caused a flash flood in a water channel in Neelum Valley that swept away at least three houses and some cars.
Saeed Qureshi, a senior official with the State Disaster Management Authority, told that the flood happened in the Ratti Galli nullah about six kilometers downstream from the popular tourist spot Ratti Galli Lake.
