On Friday, landslides and sudden floods, caused by severe monsoon rains across the northern Pakistan, said at least 199 people.
Of the murdered 180, they were recorded in the mountainous Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, where one resident equated the catastrophe Domsday.
Other nine people were killed in Kashmir, administered in Pakistan, along with the five northern Gilgit-Baltistan region, the National Disaster Management said.
Most were killed by sudden floods and collapsing homes, and the dead were 19 women and 17 children. At least 28 others were injured.
The other five people, including two pilots, were killed when the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government helicopter crashed due to bad weather mission, the provincial minister Ali Amin Gandapur said.
The Provincial Government has announced severely affected mountainous districts of the Bunner, Bajaur, Manssehra and Battagram disaster.
In the Bajaur, a tribe in the pregnant Afghanistan, the crowd gathered around the excavator, digging over a dirty hill, shown AFP photos.
The funeral prayers began in a nearby pallet, with people grieving in front of several bodies covered with blankets.
“I heard a loud noise as if it were sliding a mountain. I rushed outside and saw the whole area trembling as if it were the end of the world,” AFP said Azizullah, a resident of the buner district.
“I thought it was a end of the day,” he said.
“The earth was shaking for the power of water, and it seemed like death was looking at my face,” said Azizullah, who, like many region, uses only one name.
The Department of Meteorology has announced a heavy rain warning in the northwest of Pakistan, urging people to avoid “the impact of unnecessary vulnerable territories”.
On Friday, the rescuers pulled their bodies out of mud and chippings after the flood crashed through the village of Himalayas, killing at least 60 people and washing dozens of more.
– Prolonged monsoon –
The monsoon season in South Asia brings about three -quarters of annual precipitation, vital to agriculture and food security, but it also destroys.
During the season, frequent landslides and bursts are common, which usually start in June, and make it easier until the end of September.
Syed Muhammad Tayyab Shah, a spokesman for the National Disaster Agency, said AFP that this year’s monsoon season began earlier than usual and is expected to end later.
“The next 15 days … The intensity of the monsoon will deteriorate even more,” he said.
The provincial government announced a mourning day on Saturday, the chief minister Gandapur said.
“The national flag will fly semi-stem through the province, and the martyrs will be placed in rest with all state honors,” his office said in a statement.
Researchers say that the weather conditions around the world have become extreme and more frequent due to climate change.
Pakistan is one of the most vulnerable effects of the world’s climate change, and its population is exposed to extreme weather events increasing.
Since the beginning of the summer monks in Pakistan, rains, which have opened Pakistan, have been killed by more than 500 people, including 159 children as “unusual” by the authorities as “unusual”.
In July Punjab has almost half of 255 million people in Pakistan, with rainfall 73 percent more than previous years and more deaths than in the previous monsoon.
Muson flood 2022. Abolished a third of the country and killed about 1,700 people.
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