PESHAWAR: The Provincial Disaster Management Authority (PDMA) on Friday reported that heavy rains and flash floods over the past 24 hours have claimed 229 lives and injured 14 people across Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
According to the PDMA, the deceased include two women and eight children, while the injured comprise 11 men, two women, and one child.
The PDMA report stated that 30 houses have been damaged in total, with 25 partially destroyed and five completely demolished.
Fatal incidents were recorded in Swat, Buner, Bajaur, Torghar, Mansehra, Shangla, and Battagram, with Bajaur and Battagram identified as the worst-affected districts.
PM Shehbaz directs Swift action for flood-hit regions
Prime Minister (PM) Shehbaz Sharif Minister directed the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) NDMA to continue close coordination with the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) government and to utilise all available resources for rescue and relief operations.
Presiding over a meeting to assess the ongoing rainfall and flood situation across the country. PM Shehbaz directed concerned officials to take all-out relief efforts in flood-affected areas.
He directed that that aid supplies, including rations and medicines, be urgently dispatched to the affected regions via trucks on a priority basis.
The NDMA chairman briefed the prime minister on the damages caused by heavy rains and flooding
