fifty properties washed absent as flash floods wreak havoc in Pakistan: Report | World News

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At the very least fifty properties and mini-electric power stations had been washed absent on Sunday as flash floods wreaked havoc in Higher Kohistan.

Provincial Catastrophe Administration Authority (PDMA) formal stated that the flash floods had been activated by weighty rains which induced large destruction in the Kandia tehsil of Higher Kohistan, described Dawn.

The flooding coincides with weighty rains in Chitral and Peshawar, in which 1 human being died and two had been hurt in the previous 24 hrs, in accordance to the PDMA.

Tehsildar (earnings officer) Muhammad Riaz informed Dawn that close to fifty properties had been swept absent in the floods in Higher Kohistan, introducing that he has constituted 5 groups that have been dispatched to the afflicted locations for reduction get the job done and the evaluation of losses.

A regional activist's estimates of the devastation had been significantly larger, when an additional spoke of the problems of becoming reduce off from the electric powered grid and potable h2o.

Hafeez-ur-Rehman, a regional activist from Kandia, informed Dawn that a "large flood" strike two villages in the Kandia tehsil, in which he believed that close to one hundred properties had been washed absent, rendering scores of persons homeless. No casualties had been described.

He stated a huge amount of cattle had been also killed, when h2o offer techniques in 4 villages -- Dansh, Berti, Jashoi and Dangoi -- had been destroyed, even though the good news is, family members managed to evacuate prior to the floods achieved the villages.

Rehman also shared films with Dawn, shot by locals in the Jashoi location, of properties becoming totally submerged. In an additional movie, flood waters can be viewed raging via a valley.

He stated the locals experienced at first commenced rescue get the job done and shifted afflicted family members to safer places, described Dawn.

A different Kandia resident, Aziz Khan, stated the suspension of electric power and h2o offer has "set the complete location in issues".

"At first we experienced despatched forty five tents and other crucial products to the afflicted family members when a group of earnings officers will achieve afflicted locations in an hour to start out reduction actions," Tehsildar Riaz stated.

Dassu headquarters Assistant Commissioner Hafiz Waqar Ahmad informed Dawn that some weighty devices of the Dassu hydropower undertaking also arrived beneath rubble dislodged by flooding at Uchar Nala, nevertheless, the losses had been not important.

Uchar Nala is some 30km absent from Kandia.

Waqar stated meals products had been also dispatched for the afflicted family members of Kandia and tents are becoming mounted in Jashoi, when much more had been on the way to Birtvi.

In the meantime, the Pakistan Catastrophe Administration Authority (PDMA) stated at the very least 1 human being died and two had been hurt owing to weighty rains in Peshawar in the previous 24 hrs.

The PDMA stated 23 properties had been partly destroyed when fourteen properties had been totally destroyed in the provincial cash, described Dawn.

Likewise, various properties had been swept absent in the Higher Chitral's Boni location owing to flash floods induced by weighty rainfall. The PDMA stated locations of Decrease Chitral had been also afflicted by the rains.

Tehsil Chairman Chitral Shehzada Aman stated that the Garam Chashma Street was shut for website traffic owing to landslides, introducing that the floodwater also destroyed properties in Gobor and Daneed villages. (ANI)

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