Peshawar, Pakistan (AP) – Pakistan warned of glacier floods in the northwest with the forecast of excess rainfall for the region in the coming weeks on Saturday.
Anwar Shahzad, a spokesman of the local disaster management authority, said that the Downpores in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province are heavy compared to the same period last year, compared to the same period compared to the same period compared to the same period.
A letter from the authority sent in mid -July stated that “ice and glacier melt in weak parts of the constant high temperature sector and can later accelerate weather incidence.
Dr. of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Tourism Department. Abdul Samad said that the rescue teams vacated more than 500 holidays from Naran after a cloudburst on Friday, which shut down the road on Friday. Authorities deployed heavy machinery to remove debris and restore access.
In neighboring Gilgit-Baltistan regionThe government said that it had distributed hundreds of tents, thousands of food packets and medicines to the flood affected communities.
Spokesperson Faizullah Firak said on Saturday that some areas had “severe destruction” and houses, infrastructure, crops and businesses were damaged.
The search operations were going on to find the missing people on the Babusus highway, where the floods killed nine villages. He said that helicopters stuck tourists at the popular place of Fairy Meadows, they said.
Pakistan has received Above rain This monsoon season, disastrous 2022 increases the concerns of repeating floods One third of the country drowned and killed 1,737 people. So far this season, some 260 have died in Pakistan, which lasts till mid -September.
Pakistan is one of the weakest countries for climate change, but one of the lowest contributors in greenhouse gas emissions.
The Associated Press
