MAJOR Floods Kill 550+ People in Pakistan – June / August 2022

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More than 580 people have died and thousands have lost their homes across Pakistan as torrential rains batter the country.

An estimated 1 million have been affected by heavy rainfall, flash floods and landslides since July as Pakistan endured more than 60% of its normal total monsoon rainfall in three weeks.

Balochistan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Sindh provinces have been the worst affected, with heavy rainfall predicted across Pakistan until Friday. At least one man was killed in Karachi on Tuesday as non-stop rains hit Pakistan’s largest city for two consecutive days.

More than 40 people have died in Karachi due to heavy rains since July.

Approximately 200 people have died in Balochistan – Pakistan’s biggest and poorest province – which is suffering its worst floods in more than 30 years. The National Disaster Management Authority said the province had received 305% more rain than the annual average.

Eighteen of Balochistan’s 26 districts have been declared “calamity-hit” by the Provincial Disaster Management Authority. People have been forced to abandon their homes as crops and livestock were washed away across the province. Hundreds of miles of road have been damaged, making areas inaccessible to emergency services.

More than 570 schools have been destroyed, and cholera cases have been reported.

Mohammed Safar’s farm in Lasbela, Balochistan, was washed away when the rains came at on 12 July. It was 9am, and he and his family had to run for higher ground. “If it had flooded at any other time, we might have been washed away like plates in my kitchen. I have lost my home, crops and everything in this flood.”

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2022/aug/17/pakistan-floods-kill-580-and-bring-misery-to-millions

(note: all of the footage is from August, I couldn’t find any videos from June or July)

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29 Comments

  1. Please rest. the number of people affected by floods and natural disasters is too great. Anyone who witnessed this scene was heartbroken. I really feel sorry for a country going through this disaster

  2. People often underestimate the power of water. Being lost two friends to the water related drowning I know how devastating power water possesses.

  3. That water is moving so unbelievably fast that anything caught in it's path stands literally no chance. RIP to all the victims 🙏🏻

  4. Rest in peace to those that lost their lives and may those who survived stay strong and come together in this time of healing and rebuilding. ⚡️🙏🏽

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