PESHAWAR: As rain continued to pound much of KP, Balochistan, and Gilgit-Baltistan on Sunday, at least twelve people were killed and twenty-one others were injured in a number of rain-related incidents in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa over the course of the previous twenty-four hours.
Twelve deaths have been verified by KP’s Provincial Disaster Management Authority (PDMA) around the province.
According to the authorities, one person died in each of the districts of Lower Dir, Charsadda, and South Waziristan on Sunday, and six people died in the Karak area.
Floods in the Karak district’s Lawaghar Algada region claimed the lives of four individuals. It stated that efforts are on to find their bodies.
A roof collapse incident in Tank district resulted in the deaths of a woman and her two children, and injured four more family members. Asma Bibi, her daughter Sadia Bibi, and her son Waheed Ullah were identified as the deceased.
The flooding in streams and nullahs has also resulted in the closure of the Tank-South Waziristan road to traffic.
Thousands of visitors and residents of the Mansehra district, who had been stuck in the Kaghan and Manor valleys for six days, set out on foot on Sunday to reach their respective destinations after the Frontier Works Organization had constructed a makeshift pavement on the Manor stream in the Mahandri area.
Monsoon rains have caused flash floods that have destroyed the primary bridge on the Mansehra-Naran-Jalkhad road and created havoc in the Kaghan and Manor valleys.
In the vicinity, over two dozen hotels, homes, and electric turbines situated on Manor Creek were also washed away, along with a mother and her son.
Ali Asghar, the manager of a guesthouse in Naran, told reporters, “The stranded tourists and locals have started leaving both valleys by foot following a temporary pavement created after fixing mega concrete pipes in Manor stream.”
Travelers are advised not to visit the Kaghan Valley until conditions, which were exacerbated by flash floods brought on by the monsoon spell, improve.
man-made lake
The district government and the National Highway Authority are still undecided about whether to blow up or build spillways to release water from an artificial lake that was formed at Mahandri when the Kunhar River flow was obstructed by large rocks that were carried to the region by torrential Manor stream water.
Vehicle travel between Aqrab Daag and Ekkaghund Bazaar was halted on Sunday due to damage to a bridge on the Aqrab Daag to Shaheed Banda Daman connection road near Babi Mohmand caused by floodwaters, according to officials in the Mohmand district.
due to the bridge’s portion being swept away. Traffic on the bridge has been stopped by the authorities.
A sudden deluge in Balochistan
The National Disaster Management Authority issued a warning on Sunday, stating that there is a chance of high to extremely high-level flash floods in several areas of Balochistan.
The authorities stated that because of hill torrents, flash floods with a high to very high probability are expected to occur in the nullahs of Zhob, Kalat, Nasirabad, and Sibbi divisions, potentially causing damage to infrastructure.
In a same vein, high to very high level flash flooding is expected to occur in the hill torrents of the D.G. Khan local nullahs.
It issued a warning that increasing water flows might have an impact on everyone residing in towns, villages, or settlements close to nullahs.
Significant rainfall on the northern side of the Kabul River and its tributaries’ catchment areas could result in a big flood in Nowshera and the river’s tributaries.
The authorities sent the required directives to all concerned departments to deal with the potential consequences of flooding and severe weather.
Gilgit-Baltistan flood
Authorities in Gilgit-Baltistan reported on Sunday that the flood in Rahimabad nullah had ruined water delivery channels downstream, uprooted trees, and damaged arable land. The Rahimanad bridge on the KKH was flooded, although there is still no danger.
Water flow in the Hunza River near Rahimabad Village was obstructed by the flash flood from Rahimabad Nullah.
Land erosion was also brought on by the Hunza River’s rising water levels in Gilgit’s Jutal, Nomal, and Faizanad districts.
Similar damage was done to a hotel and a few other private properties downstream by the Jaglote Guru nullah flash flood.
Along with damaging some homes, the flood also shut Babusar-Chilas Road near Diamer.
Flash floods in the Mushkay area destroyed private and public facilities as well as water supply lines.
