Floods kill 500 across Khyber Pakhtoonkhwa
Ary News: Floods kill 500 across Khyber Pakhtoonkhwa
The death toll from three days of worst flooding in Khyber Pakhtoonkhwa crossed 500 on Friday, as rains bloated rivers, submerged villages, and triggered landslides, ARY NEWS reported Friday.
TV footage showed striking images of people clinging to fences and other stationary items as water gushed over their heads. Helicopters were also shown winching people to safety.
The rising toll from the monsoon rains underscores the poor infrastructure in impoverished Pakistan, where under-equipped rescue workers struggled to reach people stranded in far-flung villages. The weather forecast was mixed, with some areas expected to see reduced rainfall and others likely to see an intensification.
The northwest was the hardest hit and Mian Iftikhar Hussain, the information minister of Khyber Pakhtoonkhuwa province, said it was the deadliest and most destructive flooding there since 1929. He said at least 408 people have died so far in floods and rain-related accidents.
The highway connecting Peshawar to the federal capital, Islamabad, was shut down. At least 60 bridges were destroyed, Hussain told a news conference in Peshawar.
In Azad Jammu and Kashmir, at least 22 people were confirmed dead as of Thursday evening, the area’s prime minister, Sardar Attique Khan, told reporters.
The floods cap a deadly week in Pakistan. On Wednesday, a passenger jet slammed into hills close to Islamabad killing all 152 people on board.
In the Swat Valley, residents were forced to trudge through knee-deep water in some streets.
A newly constructed part of a dam in the Charsadda district collapsed, while the U.N. said it had reports 5,000 homes were underwater in that area. Hussain estimated 400,000 people were stranded in various northwest villages.
“A rescue operation using helicopters cannot be conducted due to the bad weather, while there are only 48 rescue boats available for rescue,” he said Thursday.
Pakistan’s poorest residents are often the ones living in flood-prone areas because they can’t afford safer land.
Southwest Baluchistan province has also been hit hard by recent rains. Last week flash floods in that region killed at least 41 people and swept away thousands of homes. The U.N. statement Thursday said 150,000 people were affected there.
The U.N. said Punjab province was also hit by flooding. Crops were soaked in farmlands throughout the country. The U.N. said the humanitarian community was trying to put together a proper response, but the rains were making many roads impassable, complicating efforts to assess needs.
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Geo: Flood death tally mounts to 1300
The number of deaths caused by surging flash floods and lashing downpours in the country, skidded past 1300 thus far, Geo News reported Sunday.
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government has waived off all provincial taxes, Punjab lifted agricultural tax and Balochistan announced to write off all agri-loans.
At least 800 people hitherto lost their lives in rains and flooding in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
At least eight hotels and over 300 houses were swept away in floodwater. Also, massive havoc was wrought in Swat and Shangla, where link bridges and thousands of houses were washed away.
Eleven members of the same family were killed when the roof of their houses came down on them in Kabal area of Dardial.
GEO: PM befooled by fake medical camp in
Prime Minister Gilani was magnificently befooled in Mianwali when he visited a medical relief camp, which was amazingly set up moments before his arrival by local administration within premises of a private school, Geo News revealed.
The medical camp had been set up in emergency some minutes before PM arrived on a visit while some persons were also made fabricated patients to appear being treated at relief camp.
Authorities showed blind-to-fact PM Gilani as if the medical camp was functioning for long time in the area. However, no sooner did poor PM Gilani depart than there was no medical relief camp to be found in the area.
After reviewing the damage and displacement wreaked by floods in the area, PM was informed of the medical relief camp established for provision of medical aid for affectees and also he was insisted to visit camp.
On his arrival at camp, PM, the chief of country, was introduced persons lying on the beds being flood efectees, whom innocent PM Gilani not only granted compensation cheques costing Rs.5000 each but also inquired after their wellbeing.
However in reality, there are only an empty school, chairs, desks and school employees now in replacement of medical staff, patients and a medical relief camp.
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