Officials of the country’s disaster management said that 11 people have been killed in flash floods in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, the north -west mountaineer of Pakistan, including four children.
The Provincial Disaster Management Authority said in a report released late Friday, “In the last 24 hours, the flash flood and landslide claimed the lives of 11 people – including four children and three women – while six others were injured.”
According to the report, one person was killed in Malkand district, while 10 others were killed in the SWAT Valley.
Local media reported that the family was swept away and the flood damaged 56 houses on the banks of the Swat river.
Pakistan’s local daily newspaper Dawn Told that rescue operations were going on in many other districts along with people trapped in water.
The National Meter Department warned of heavy rainfall and more flash floods till Tuesday.
Pakistan and climate change
Pakistan is one of the most weak countries in the world that affects 240 million inhabitants with the increasing frequency of flash floods and other climatic events with the effects of climate change.
In May, some 24 people were killed in serious storms in Pakistan. In August 2022, one -third of the country ran away due to unprecedented monsoon rains with over 33 million people. Scientists around the world have said that the climate crisis was to blame and the rising global temperatures will only make the monson more intense in the future.
Pakistan continues ‘sleepwalk’ on climate change – former minister
Former Pakistan Climate Change Minister Sherry Rehman took into X, saying that the nation continued to “sleepwalk” on climate change and raised this danger.
He pointed to the regular alert issued by the National Disaster Management Agency and said that local officials had failed to take him seriously.
“Not only the provincial administration failed to understand the magnitude of the crisis, I keep repeating, so refused tourists. It is spatial for a system that thinks that the climm change can only be placed on a back burner, or which is not multiplied in scale and intensity,” he wrote.
“These are natural disasters” which absent all actors of responsibility, local, national and global. Super monsoon and flash floods are not ideal. They have been faster for decades, “He said, urged the country to” wake up “on the issue.
Edited by: Keran Burke
