At least 25 people, including six women from the same family, have died due to flash floods triggered by seasonal monsoon rains. Balochistan of Pakistan The province on Wednesday prompted authorities to declare a state of emergency in Quetta district.
Provincial Disaster Management Authority (PDMA) Director General Nasir Ahmed Nassar said that all the deaths were due to rain-related incidents in different parts of Balochistan.
“There have also been several incidents of people getting injured in the heavy rains,” he said.
According to the PDMA, the death toll is expected to rise as several people are missing due to flash floods in remote areas of Balochistan province.
Mr Nassar said that more than 300 mud-walled houses have been damaged in Quetta district.
The dead included six women from the same family in Quetta. He died when the wall of his temporary house collapsed due to rain and strong winds, officials said.
According to family members, two women succumbed to their injuries due to no hospitalization arrangements. dawn The newspaper report said.
Three women and four children were also killed when a house collapsed on the outskirts of Quetta.
The Balochistan government has declared a state of emergency in Quetta district. Many districts of Balochistan province have received heavy rains accompanied by strong winds in the last 24 hours.
In Quetta too, bodies of two girls were recovered from drowning in a deep pond in Bhosa Mandi area on Tuesday night, officials said.
They died when the wall of the house of two women collapsed in Dasht area of Mastung district, they said.
In Kech districts, three children drowned in a seasonal stream in Mand area along the Pakistan-Iran border.
Five coal miners were also washed away in the seasonal drain.
However, two of them were rescued by the locals, while three others drowned in the water.
Heavy rains lashed parts of Nasirabad, Jafrabad, Sibi, Ziarat, Harnai, Barkhan, Lorelai, Lasbela, Kohlu, Dera Bugti, Awaran, Noshki and Chagai districts, where the local administration has taken steps to take relief measures.
Floods caused by seasonal monsoon rains wreak havoc in Pakistan every year, killing hundreds.