Flash floods kill 29 people across K-P

Raging waters sweep away 34 houses, cattle in Chitral

CHITRAL:

At least 29 people have been killed and several others were injured after flash floods hit several areas of the province, a report by the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) said on Wednesday.

Flash floods also washed away four houses and partially damaged 34 others in the Rambor area of Chitral.

Officials at the Chitral district administration told The Express Tribune that several cattle had been swept away in the floods.

Rescue teams and volunteers of the Provincial Disaster Management Authority (PDMA) have set up emergency operating centres and have launched a relief operation, providing affected families with relief items, they added.

Meanwhile, the PDMA has directed the local administration to survey the damaged houses.

The authority also worked to reopen some of the routes for traffic which had been blocked by the floods.

Meanwhile, Special Assistant to Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) Chief Minister for Minority Affairs Wazir Zada, who hails from Chitral, directed to expedite relief activities in the flood-hit Rambor valley.

The special assistant said that a survey will be conducted to assess losses caused by the floods and that affected families will be compensated.

Last month, floods caused by a glacial outburst and heavy rains had wreaked havoc in the Golen Gol area of the district.

Published in The Express Tribune, August 27^th, 2020.