Floods have devastated 33 million people in Pakistan, resulting in 1,456 injuries and 982 fatalities. The Shehbaz Sharif administration has turned to the Pakistan Army for assistance in relief and rescue efforts. According to Pakistan’s disaster management organisation, more than 3,000 km of roads, around 150 bridges, and almost seven lakh homes have been washed away or destroyed as a result of the flooding.
“At present, more than half of (the country) is under water and millions of people have been forced homeless as a result of flash flooding created by exceptional monsoon rains,” said Pakistani news website Dawn on Saturday morning.
Over 5.7 million people are also without food and shelter as a result of unprecedented rains.
The Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, Balochistan, and Sindh provinces, where heavy rain has continued for a second day in a row and blocked off areas due to damaged roads and bridges, have experienced a “new wave of death and destruction,” according to The Tribune. Crops and cattle are also damaged as part of the catastrophe.
According to news agency PTI, Sindh and Balochistan were the severely affected, and various locations along these regions’ train lines saw a suspension of service.
