Sep. 2 (EUROPA PRESS) –
More than 1,200 people have died as a result of the violent and torrential rains that have fallen in recent weeks in Pakistan, which is preparing to face new deluges in the south of the country.
The National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) has specified that among the 1,208 dead there are 416 children, while the number of injured has risen to 6,082. In the last 24 hours, 19 more fatalities have been recorded.
The water level in the city of Dadu, in southern Pakistan, has continued to rise this Friday. This increase is a consequence of the very pronounced flooding of the Indus River, which has caused monstrous floods, leaving behind a halo of destruction in various regions of the country.
Emergency teams are rushing this Friday to evacuate millions of people residing in remote villages in the south of the country, waiting for new floods to fall and the overflow of rivers arriving from the north, reports the Pakistani daily ‘ Dawn’.
“It’s a race against time,” said Sindh provincial government spokesman Murtaza Wahab. The devastation is now spreading south, with floodwaters heading towards Dadu’s Manchhar and Johi lakes, where thousands of people were trapped without food and shelter.
The Indus River, which flows from the Himalayas to the Arabian Sea in the south, has burst its banks once again following heavy rains in the mountains last week. Nearly 20,000 cubic meters of water per second is now flowing down the river and will soon reach Sindh’s major cities.
Meanwhile, in the north, several towns are still inundated by heavy rains that fell mainly last week. Although the virulence has already subsided, thousands of people are still without food or shelter.
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