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At least 49 people have died after three days of continuous heavy rain and lightning across Pakistan, officials said on Monday, prompting authorities to declare a state of emergency in the country’s south-west due to the torrential rains. Has given.
Some farmers died when lightning struck them as they were harvesting wheat, and dozens of houses collapsed in North West and East Punjab province due to the rain. Provincial Disaster Management Authority spokesperson Arfan Kathia said 21 people have died in Punjab, where more rain is expected this week.
Torrential rain in Islamabad also
Khurshid Anwar, spokesman for the Disaster Management Authority in the northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province bordering Afghanistan, said 21 people died due to heavy rains in the area. Torrential rains also occurred in the capital Islamabad and seven people died in the south-western Balochistan province. Roads were flooded in the north-western city of Peshawar and Balochistan’s capital Quetta.
What did PM Sharif say
The country’s Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif said on this natural disaster that he has ordered the officials to provide relief assistance to the people. He said that due to rain, the reservoirs of Pakistan will improve. Pakistani environmental expert Rafe Alam said that such heavy rain in April is unusual. He said that two years ago, Pakistan saw a heat wave in March and April and now we are seeing rains. He said that all this is due to climate change, due to which the country had to face floods in the year 2022. In 2022, heavy rains caused rivers to overflow and inundate one-third of Pakistan, killing 1,739 people and causing $30 billion in flood damage.
Heavy rain in Afghanistan also
Not only Pakistan but Afghanistan is also facing heavy rains and floods. Abdullah Janan Sack, Taliban spokesperson of the State Ministry for Natural Disaster Management, informed that 33 people died and 27 people are said to be injured in three days due to floods caused by seasonal rains in Afghanistan. More than 600 houses were destroyed while about 200 animals were also killed. He said the floods also damaged large tracts of agricultural land and more than 85 km (53 miles) of roads. The spokesman said officials in Afghanistan provided assistance to about 23,000 families and that flash flooding was reported in 20 of the country’s 34 provinces.
