835 people have died in the monsoon since June 26, with 195 in Punjab province alone, according to a statement from the Punjab Disaster Management Authority (PDMA) released on Saturday.
More than 2,300 villages have been affected by the swollen transboundary rivers that pass through Punjab, which borders India.
The regional Punjab government has started frequent flood bund diverts from the Chenab, Ravi, and Sutlej rivers. For the first time in the country’s history, all three major rivers overflowed at once, according to local media.
The Punjab government’s relief services, led by Nabeel Javed, announced on Saturday that 481 000 people had been evacuated along with 405 000 livestock and that 481 000 had been stranded by the floods.
More than 1.5 million people have been impacted by the flooding overall.
At a press conference, Irfan Ali Khan, the provincial’s director of disaster management, said, “This is the biggest rescue operation in Punjab’s history.”
He claimed that more than 800 boats and 1,300 rescuers were evacuating families from affected areas, primarily in rural areas close to the banks of the three rivers.
No human life is left unattended.
According to Khan, the most recent monsoon flooding event since the start of the week has left 30 people dead, with others still missing throughout the heavier-than-usual season that started in June.
“No one is unattended with their lives,” the statement read. According to Khan, “every kind of rescue effort is still going on.”
Families and their livestock can now find shelter in more than 500 relief camps.
Safdar Munir, a farmer in Kasur, claimed that his crops and belongings were destroyed by the floods.
“We are therefore removing our cattle because we don’t have enough food for them.” He told Al Jazeera, “We haven’t received any assistance from the government.”
Another farmer, Abid, said, “Everything was destroyed by the water.” I am able to save my livestock with great difficulty. My farm and crops are all submerged.
Difficulty families gathered in a school in the impoverished town of Shahdara, which is close to Lahore’s provincial capital, after fleeing the rising water in their homes.
Rain continued to fall throughout Saturday, especially in Lahore, the second-largest city in the nation, where a housing development’s entire development was partially submerged in water.
The Pakistan Meteorological Department (PMD) forecasts for additional periods of frequent rain, wind, and thunderstorms in various regions.
More than 400 Pakistanis were killed in just a few days in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, the only province held by the opposition to the federal government, in the course of a matter of days as a result of torrential rains on the other side of the nation.
Source: Aljazeera
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