The number includes 191 women and 326 children
ISLAMABAD: Climate-Change Minister Sherry Rehman revealed on Wednesday that the heavy monsoon rains and subsequent floods have killed more than 900 people and injured 1,300, creating a “humanitarian crisis” in the country.
Rehman issued a series of Tweets stating that heart-wrenching scenes of devastation were emerging from the affected areas. Thousands of people have been displaced and thousands of people are waiting for rescue and relief, still trapped in floodwater.
“Due to record rains, a humanitarian crisis has arisen across the country,” Rehman said in one of her tweets. “We have to deal with and overcome the humanitarian crisis as a nation, not separately. This is the time to unite, not divide.”
Since June, 903 people, including 326 children and 191 women, died in various incidents due to monsoon rains and floods.
Almost 1,293 people have been injured and the data shared by the minister suggests that most of the deaths and injuries have occurred in Sindh and Balochistan.
Minister assured that the government was utilizing all available resources to help the flood victims but said that authorities needed “partners and donors at the national and international levels” to meet the shortfall in resources.
The government issued an appeal to the nation to donate money to the Prime Minister Relief Fund. Information Minister Marriyum Aurangzeb also said that overseas Pakistanis could send donations through money service bureaus, wire transfers, money transfer operators and exchange houses.
The data released by the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) said that 3 million people across 116 districts of the country were affected because of the devastating rains.
The report states 830 people have died, 413,000 houses were damaged, over 2 million acres of crops were destroyed, 707,000 cattle perished, and 2,886 km of highways and 129 bridges were damaged.
The nationwide death toll includes 313 children and 180 women, the report said. The NDMA added that 239 people died in Sindh, 225 in Balochistan, 168 in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) while 151 deaths were reported in Punjab.
