Overnight flash floods kill 30 people in northern Pakistan

Mr Rehman said a military-led rescue and relief operation had begun, with helicopters being used to reach the affected people and provide them with tents, food and medical aid.

Heavy monsoon rain and flash floods in Chitral played a havoc in Ursoon village where thirty one people including women and children were killed on Saturday/Sunday.

As many as 17 people were reported missing in Ursoon Village while as many were injured due to flash flooding in the area last night, a report in The Express Tribune quoting DPO Chitral Asif Iqbal said.

Authorities fear more monsoon rains will bring further disaster this week.

“There was panic in the area because people were running as the floods compelled hundreds of residents to leave their homes”, Waraich said.

Pakistan faced its worst floods in recent times in 2010, when almost a fifth of the country’s total land mass was affected – killing nearly 2,000 people and displacing some 20 million.

According to the media reports, 30 people were killed, 35 people were critically injured and 31 went missing in the flood.

While another 25 are now known to have died in floods and landslides in India’s Uttarakhand and Arunachal Pradesh states. Recovery efforts were complicated because numerous bodies were believed to have been carried across the border into Afghanistan.

Rescue and relief operations were underway, he added. He also directed the administration to take all precautionary measures to save the lives and properties of the people. Several damaged roads have also been repaired, Rawat said.