A fisherman moors his boat at Karachi port amid cyclonic winds, in Karachi, on August 29, 2024. | Photograph credit score: AFP
“A landslide triggered by heavy monsoon rains hit a home in a distant space of northwest Pakistan, killing 12 individuals, principally kids,” a rescue official stated on Friday (August 30, 2024).
Inayat Ali, a state emergency providers official, stated the mudslide occurred in a single day in Higher Dir in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, close to Afghanistan. He stated rescuers had recovered the our bodies of 9 kids, two girls and a person. Ali didn’t present additional particulars.
Authorities have warned that heavy rains which have continued to fall since final month may set off landslides and flash floods throughout Pakistan. Since July 1, greater than 275 individuals have died in rain-related incidents in varied elements of the nation.
Pakistan’s annual monsoon season runs from July to September. Scientists have attributed elevated rainfall lately to local weather change. In 2022, torrential rains flooded a 3rd of the nation, killing 1,739 individuals.
