Hundreds dies in Pakistan after scandalous floods, landslides

Flood in the northwest Pakistan Officials said on Saturday, where more than 220 people have been killed over the past 48 hours, as rescuers have withdrawn 63 other bodies overnight from the houses that were settled due to floods and landslides.

Pakistan has received the upper seasonal rains from the monsoon winds this year, which led to the occurrence of muddles and muddrops that have killed more than 540 people since June 26, according to the National Disaster Management Authority.

One of the residents told Agence France -Presse that the amazing floods felt as if it were “the end of the world” as the land shook the power of water.

Aziz Allah said: “I heard a loud noise as if the mountain was slipping. I rushed abroad and saw the entire region shaking, as it was at the end of the world.”

“The earth was trembling because of the strength of the water, and I felt that death was staring at me in the face.”

“Hundreds of rescue workers are still searching for survivors in Bonner, one of the many places in the province of Khaybar Bakhtongua, where heavy rains and composers caused huge floods on Friday. Dozens of houses were clouded.

Kashef Qawiom, Deputy Commissioner in Boner, said that the first respondents are trying to restore the bodies from the worst villages of Bir Baba and Malik Bora, as most of the deaths were.

The local police officer, the concession of Khan, who survived the mice, said that the flood water that carries hundreds of rocks hit and flattened the houses within a few minutes.

“When many of the distorted objects decreased,” a stream near the village of Bir Baba in Bonner inflated without warning, “Khan told Associated Press.

“Our police station has also been washed, and if we don’t climb to the upper ground, they will not survive.”

Rescuers said that they saw large areas of the village of Bir Baba destroyed, shattered the houses, and the giant rocks that fill the streets when the water began to decline.

Sultan Sayed, 45, who suffered from a broken arm, said: “It was not only the flood water, but also a flood of rocks, which we saw for the first time in our lives.”

Muhammad Khan, 53, said that the floods “came very quickly that many were unable to leave their homes.”

“Most of the victims died before arriving at the hospital.” “Many of the dead were children and men, while women were in the hills that collected firewood and grazing,” he said.

The mourners attended collective funerals on Saturday, while the authorities provided tents and foodstuffs to the people affected by the floods in Boner.

Local cleric Louvy Fadl said that he had led the funeral prayer in multiple locations since Friday morning. “Before yesterday’s floods, the area was loud. Now, there is sadness and sadness everywhere.”

School teacher Suleiman Khan lost 25 members of his extended family, saying that he and his brother only survived because they were far from the house when the floods hit his village, Qadar Nagar.

According to the Regional Disaster Management Authority, at least 351 people died in rain -related incidents this week through Khaybar Bakhtongua and the northern region of Gilgit in Pentess.

About 300 km (about 186 miles) in the Indian Kashmir, the rescuers in the remote village of Shoiti in Kishtwar Province on Saturday, searching for dozens of missing people after they had sudden floods two days ago, wounding about 150, about 50 decisive.

Floods were struck on Thursday during the annual Hindu Hajj in the region. The authorities saved more than 300 people, while about 4000 pilgrims were evacuated to safety.

Such a cloud is increasingly common in the Himalayas areas in India and the northern regions of Pakistan, and experts said climate change is a contributing factor.

Pakistani officials said that since Thursday, rescuers have evacuated more than 3,500 tourists trapped in flood damage areas throughout the country.

Many travelers ignore government warnings about avoiding weak areas in the north and northwest.

Pakistan witnessed the worst season of monsoon in 2022. It killed more than 1700 people and caused an estimated damage of $ 40 billion.