Pakistan’s floods kill 1,486 people and hurt 12,749: NDMA

Web Desk (LTN NEWS): As of Thursday, 1,486 people have died because of the devastating monsoon floods that hit the whole country. In the last 24 hours, five more people have died, bringing the total number of deaths to 1,486.

Since the rainy season started, there have also been reports of 12,749 people getting hurt.

National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) put out a situation report every 24 hours that listed the total number of lives lost, property damage, and damage to infrastructure caused by the heavy rains that hit different parts of the country.

People died in places where heavy rains and flash floods caused flooding. Balochistan’s Provincial Disaster Management Authority (PDMA) matched up its data on deaths, which included the number of deaths counted in incidents on September 9. It said that in Killa Saifullah, there was one man, one woman, and one child.

In the Kurram District of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP), a man and a child were found dead, and another man was hurt.

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In the last 24 hours, nothing bad happened in Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT), Gilgit Baltistan (GB), Punjab, Sindh, or Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK).

In the past 24 hours, heavy rains have destroyed 300 kilometers (km) of roads in Balochistan and killed 10,336 animals. The rains also damaged 5,091 homes, of which 2,166 were completely destroyed and 2,925 were partially destroyed.

However, the total damage so far shows that heavy rains have damaged 12,718 km of roads, 390 bridges, 1,760,372 homes, and 918,473 animals in different districts of all provinces, including Gilgit Baltistan and Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK).

NDMA report said that 33,046,329 people were affected by the disaster in 81 districts across the country. 179,281 people were saved in different rescue operations, and 546,288 people lived in camps.

Damage assessments were done together in 30 districts of Balochistan. About 32 teams were sent out to do the damage assessments, which were expected to be done by September 25.

In Great Britain, four teams were sent to the area to do the survey, which began on September 12 and was supposed to be done by September 20.

In Punjab, three survey teams were sent out into the field on September 12 to start the survey, which was supposed to be done by September 30. Six teams were already on the ground in KP to start the survey, which began on September 15 and would be done by October 15.

In Sindh, the survey would start as soon as it was possible, which was expected to be September 25.