Pakistan

Flash floods in North-West Pakistan: More than 30 Dead

A monsoon rain caused mainly in the province of Khyber Pakthunkhwa Floods. The bodies of some victims were washed up on the Afghan side of the border.

When the Floods came, according to the authorities, at least 36 people were killed. Many of the victims were visitors to a mosque. The water masses destroyed the Church and several houses in the district of Chitral, as Yousaf Zia from the disaster informing protection authorities. Most of the district Chitral and especially the remote village of Ursoon, where there are the most deaths is affected. According to the authorities of a mosque were destroyed in Ursoon, several houses and an army post.

Waiting for rescue from the flood waters

The bodies of eight villagers had been found on the Afghan side of the border. Six soldiers were still missing, it said. In addition, six people were killed when on a construction site of a dam, a roof caved in. In the case of three of the victims had been Chinese engineers. Five Pakistani workers have been injured, said the spokesman of the civil protection authority.

Rescue teams try to reach the victim in Chitral, but the weather conditions hampered the salvage operations. The weather Bureau in the capital, Islamabad had announced for this year’s rainy season, 20 percent more rainfall than usual.

Already
in April came with heavy rains, with landslides in Pakistan 127 people have been killed. Many of the houses in Pakistan, especially in rural areas, do not withstand such storms. The most severe Floods of recent years experienced by Pakistan in 2010: at that Time, almost a fifth of the country’s territory was flooded and almost 2000 people died and 20 million residents had to leave their homes.

sti/qu (afp, ape, rtr)