Officials said Buner, Pakistan (AP) – North -West Pakistani district has killed at least 220 people, officials said on Saturday that the rescue team pulled 63 more bodies overnight from the houses, which were flattened by houses. Flash floods And landslides, with the forecast of more rainfall in the coming days.
An eyewitness, who survived the delugs in Baner, told the flood waters crashed hundreds of boulders and “tons of rocks”.
Hundreds of rescuers are still searching for the remaining people in Banar, one of the many places in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province Torrential rain and cloudbers On Friday, due to large -scale floods, emergency services spokesperson Mohammad Suhail said. Dozens of houses were swept away.
The first respondents are trying to recover the bodies from the worst hit villages of Pir Baba and Malik Pura, where most were fatal, a Deputy Commissioner Kashif Qayyum said in Banar.
Local police officer Imtiaz Khan, who survived narrowly, said that the flood waters took hundreds of boulders and flatten the houses within minutes.
Khan told the Associated Press, “A stream was swollen near the village of Pir Baba in Baner without any warning. First, we thought it is a normal flash flood, but when the tons of rocks crashed with water, then 60 to 70 households were swept away,” Khan told The Associated Press, many bodies were released.
“Our police station was also washed and if we had not climbed on high land, we would not have survived.”
Pakistan’s Meteorological Department predicted torrential rains in the coming days and warned that the monsoon activity was likely to intensify from Sunday to North and North -West from Sunday.
More monsoon rainfall than normal
Rescuers said that they destroyed the large swath of Pir Baba village, destroyed the houses, and the huge rocks were filling the streets as the water started again.
45 -year -old Sultan Syed said, “It was not just flood water, it was also a flood of boulder, which we first saw in our lives.”
53 -year -old Mohammad Khan said that the flood “came so fast that many people could not leave their homes.”
Most of the victims died before reaching the hospital, Mohammad Tariq, a doctor in Baner, said. “Many of the dead were children and men, while women were far away in the hills collecting wooden and grazing cattle.”
Pakistani leaders, including the Prime Minister and the President, expressed their condolences to the families of the deceased and said they were praying for the rapid recovery of the injured.
The Chief Minister of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Ali Amin Gandapur said that efforts were being made to repair the roads and other damaged infrastructure.
According to the National Disaster Management Authority, Pakistan has received high-to-common monsoon rains this year, which experts connect with climate change by triggering floods and mudslides that kill 541 people from 26 June to 26 June.
‘Sorrow and sorrow everywhere’
The mischiefs attended a large -scale funeral on Saturday, while the authorities supplied tents and food to the people in Baner.
Local cleric Mufti Fazal led the funeral prayer at several places since Friday morning. “Before yesterday’s floods, the region was stirring with life. Now, there is sorrow and sorrow everywhere.”
School student Suleman Khan lost 25 members of his expanded family. He and his brother survived only because they were away from home when the flood collided with his village Kader Nagar.
In Pir Baba, the condolence persons put the body covered by their loved ones on a wooden bedfrem or bore them further. In a hospital, paramedics placed ice blocks next to the deceased or rested the injured.
According to the Provincial Disaster Management Authority, at least 351 people have died in rain-related incidents this week in the northern region of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Gilgit-Baltistan.
Tourists stranded in flood-hit areas
In controlled Kashmir in India, rescuers on Saturday searched for dozens of missing people after repeating the remote village of Chositi in Kishtwar district, because after two days ago flash was hit by floods, 60 were killed and around 150 injured, about 50 serious conditions.
On Thursday, there was a flood during an annual Hindu pilgrimage in the region. Officers have rescued more than 300 people, while some 4,000 pilgrims have been evacuated for security.
Such cloudbers are rapidly common in India Himalayan region And Northern region of PakistanAnd experts have said Climate change A contribution is a factor.
Pakistani officials said that since Thursday, the rescue team has taken more than 3,500 time. Tourist Got stuck in flood-hut areas across the country.
Many passengers have ignored government warnings about avoiding weak areas in the north and north -west.
Pakistan saw its worst monsoon season in 2022. It killed over 1,700 people and lost an estimated $ 40 billion.
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Khan Reported from Peshawar, Pakistan. Associated Press Writers Munir Ahmed in Islamabad, Rasool Dawar in Peshawar, Pakistan, Ishfaq Husain in Muzaffarabad, Pakistan, and Channi Ananad in Chositi, India, Contributed to this reporte.
Muhammad Sajjad and Riyaz Khan, Associated Press