Nearly 1,000 dead after monsoon rains in Pakistan

Heavy floods caused by the rainy season, which have continued since June and have been described as some of the worst on record, have caused havoc in Pakistan.

982 people have died, according to the country’s crisis agency, which reported 45 new deaths between Friday and Saturday. 1,456 people have been confirmed infected.

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According to The Guardian, as many as 33 million people have been forced to leave their homes and it is now impossible for emergency personnel to reach large parts of the country. Roads, bridges and dams have been destroyed in several places, and photos and videos on social media show how entire buildings were torn from their foundations and then disappeared into water blocks.

This is the moment when the famous new honeymoon hotel in the tourist resort of Kalam in northwest Pakistan was destroyed and swept away by the Swat River.https://t.co/1b1s2i6pzp pic.twitter.com/pxkUZNM97G

Sky News
August 26, 2022

Ask for help from the world

As a result of the devastation, the relatively newly appointed Pakistani Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif has appealed to the outside world for help.

BBC Reports indicate that the United States, Britain, the United Arab Emirates and a number of other countries have already contributed to easing the crisis. However, this help will not be enough in the long run, says Salman Sofi of Pakistan’s Ministry of Interior.

“Pakistan has been experiencing economic problems and now, just when we were about to beat them, we hit the monsoon disaster,” he told Public Service Channel, adding that funding for several completely unrelated projects had been redirected to the rescue. efforts.

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