The National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA), has revealed the number of properties that were destroyed and lives lost in Pakistan.
The total death toll recorded in Pakistan from this season’s monsoon rains since mid-June has risen to 1,061, along with 1,575 others injured, official reports say.
According to NDMA, 992,871 houses, 170 bridges and 157 shops had been destroyed by the “monster
monsoon of the decade,” as described by the country’s Climate Change Minister, Sherry Rehman.
Finance Minister Miftah Ismail said the floods have impacted Pakistan’s economy by USD 10 billion.
Around 7,19,558 livestock are also dead, as millions of acres of fertile farmlands have been inundated by weeks of constant rains.
About 28 people died and 48 others were injured in heavy monsoon rain-triggered flash floods and other rain-related incidents in the last 24 hours in the Southern Asian country.
NDMA disclosed that at least 11 children and three women were among those who lost their lives in different rain-related accidents across the country.
The country’s northwest Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province was the worst-hit region, with 16 killed and 25 others injured.
Officials said the final death toll could be much higher, a grim forecast as thousands of villages in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province remain cut off from the rest of the country as swollen rivers destroyed roads and bridges, the Express Tribune newspaper reported.
Pakistan’s Energy Ministry said that restoration of power in Sindh and Balochistan provinces remained top priority, Geo TV reported.
Unable to cope with one of the worst catastrophes, Pakistan sought international help and the world has responded, with humanitarian assistance and solidarity messages coming from several countries.
(Xinhua/NAN)