After days of exceptionally heavy rains battered the government’s south, at least 39 people have died in Pakistan.
According to specialists, some of the victims were farmers who were struck by lightning while stealing grains.
Online images show large areas of land covered in rainwater. Additionally, power lines and travel systems have been impacted by flash floods.
As Pakistan struggles with the effects of climate change, it has seen an increase in extreme weather events.
In 2022, one-third of the land was completely submerged by extraordinary flood, killing over 1,700 people and injuring hundreds. Millions of people went without access to clean drinking water for weeks after that.
Some of the regions affected by the 2022 storms, including Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan, are being impacted again by the new winds.
Pakistan’s National Disaster Management Authority has also issued a warning about floods and flash floods in light of additional weather that is anticipated in the coming time.
The highest death toll in Punjab, the county where it is most crowded, has been recorded thus far, with 21 individuals killed by lightning between Friday and Sunday, according to AFP media company.
According to AFP, at least eight people were killed in the northwestern Balochistan state, where officials have declared a state of emergency. On Monday and Tuesday, provincial institutions were given the order to close.
Broad areas of Pasni, a Baloch coastal community, have been covered by water.
Noor Ahmed Kalmati, the president of the city’s municipal commission, reported to Pakistan’s newspaper Dawn that” Pasni looks like a big river at the moment as flash floods have impacted the major commercial and human towns.”
In Afghanistan’s neighbor, large flooding has also been reported. According to Afghan officials, at least 33 people have died and hundreds of homes have been damaged or destroyed.
According to experts, international heat is likely to have contributed to the disastrous floods that hit Pakistan in 2022. According to the UN’s International Climate Risk Index, Pakistan is also ranked as the fifth-straightest nation in terms of climate change.