Floods triggered by torrential rains in Pakistan have caused damage and killed at least 30 people this week, authorities said Friday, as the country’s second-largest city, Lahore, was inundated by its heaviest rainfall in more than four decades.
The arrival of the monsoon season has brought flooding and landslides across South Asia over the past week, with at least 195 people dead and nearly 200 missing in a disaster in neighbouring India.
Heavy rains have lashed northern Pakistan, causing flooding, building collapses and increasing the risk of electrocution.
“Lahore has again broken a 44-year rainfall record,” said officials in the northeastern province of Punjab, where authorities reported six deaths and warned of flash floods in the south this week.
In Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, 12 children were among two dozen people killed in the past three days of rain and flooding in the northwestern province, Anwar Shehzad, spokesman for its disaster management agency, told Reuters.
Pakistan is considered by global organisations, including the United Nations, to be one of the most vulnerable countries to extreme weather and climate change. In 2022, floods wreaked havoc, killing more than 1,700 people and displacing millions.
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