At least 194 people have died during the past 24 hours in heavy monsoon floods and landslides in Pakistan and Kashmir, which is run by Pakistan.
Most of the deaths, 180, were recorded by disaster authorities in the mountainous Khyber Bakhtonguhu Province in northwestern Pakistan. At least 30 homes were destroyed and a rescue helicopter crashed during operations, killing its five crew.
She said that nine people were killed in Kashmir, which is run by Pakistan, while five died in the Gilgit area in the northern Pinch.
The government foreclosure said that heavy rains were expected until August 21 in the northwest of the country, where many areas were declared disaster areas.
In Boner, one of the survivors of AFP said that the floods had arrived like “Day of Resurrection”.
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.”
The Prime Minister of Khaybar Bakhtongua, Ali Amin Jadpur, said that the M-17 helicopter crashed due to bad weather as she was traveling to Bagour, an area on the borders of Afghanistan.
In Bagour, I collected a crowd from a crowd around a silent excavation of a mud, and pictures of Frano Persia showed. The funeral prayer began in a nearby circuit, where people grieve in front of many bodies covered by blankets.
In a part of the cashmere, the rescue men pulled the bodies from clay and knees on Friday after the flood It was destroyed through the village of HimalayasKilling at least 60 people and washing dozens.
The seasonal rains between June and September offer about three quarters of the annual rains of South Asia. The landslides and floods are common, 300 people died this year.
In July, Punjab, a habitat of approximately half of the 255 million people in Pakistan, recorded more than rain more than the previous year and deaths more than they were in the entire previous monsoon.
Scientists say climate change made weather events more extreme and more frequent.
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2025-08-15 15:04:00