Pak floods kill 1,000, Helicopters can’t find dry spots to land with Aid

TIL Desk/World/Islamabad/ The catastrophic flood caused due to monsoon rains, cloudbursts and bank breaches continues to wreck havoc across Pakistan as the death toll rose to 1,037.

Floods continued to cause destruction, devastation and claim lives as at least 119 people died in Khyber Pukhtunkhwa (KP) and Balochistan and left over 70 injured in the last 24 hours. “Our helicopter sorties are not finding dry land to drop rations.” Pakistan’s federal Minister for Climate Change, said

Overall, 1,037 lives have been lost till now across the country, with 74 deaths reported in Sindh, 31 in KP, six in Gilgit Baltistan (GB), four in Balochistan and one in Punjab and Kashmir.

As per the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA), at least 32 children, 56 men and nine women have died in the floods and the rains while the number of people affected has cross 5.77 million. At least 3,116 km of highways and 149 bridges were washed away.

The massively spread destruction and devastation caused by the floods across Pakistan has prompted an immediate appeal for flood relief aid by Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif as relief aids have started to land by countries including the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Turkey and others.