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The rescuers and residents resumed the research on Tuesday of survivors while the number of deaths of a torrential rain exceeded 350, the authorities warning the Mousson showers would continue until the weekend.
Torrential rains in northern Pakistan have caused floods and landslides that swept entire villages, leaving many residents trapped in the rubble and missing scores.
The National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) said that 356 people had been killed in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, a mountainous province in northwestern Pakistan, the Afghanistan border, since Thursday evening.
Dozens of others have been killed in the surrounding regions, wreaking havoc in the last five days at almost 400.
The rescuers have dug mud and stone in the village of Dalori hard hit in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in the hope of finding survivors and the bodies of missing persons.
The villagers watched and praying while the rescuers worked, one day after the more intense rain.
Umar Islam, a 31 -year -old worker, had a hard time holding back his tears while he was talking about his father, who was killed on Monday.
“Our misery is beyond the explanation,” said Islam AFP While the neighbors were trying to console him.
“In a few minutes, we lost everything we had,” he said.
“Our lives are ruined.”
Fazal Akbar, 37, another villager, described the consequences of floods as “terrifying”.
“It happened so suddenly that no one even had a minute to react. Ads were made from the mosque, and the villagers rushed to start the rescue themselves,” said Akbar.
“In less than 20 minutes, our village was reduced to ruins.”
Many roads have been damaged, making it difficult for rescuers to reach the areas damaged by floods.
Communication is also difficult, telephone networks struck in areas affected by floods.
The heavy rains also started falling Tuesday in the southern Pakistan regions which had so far been spared in the worst of the Mosson showers.
Amir Hyder Laghari, chief meteorologist in the southern province of Sindh, said that he feared urban floods in major cities such as the Karachi financial capital “due to low infrastructure.”
While the pipes and the ruined sewer system of Karachi had trouble facing the showers, the rush hour drivers were taken in rising waters and that several districts were struck by electric cuts.
He also cried in 15 districts from the neighboring province of Balutchistan, and the main highway connecting it to the Sindh was blocked for heavy vehicles, said the Muhammad Younis provincial disaster.
Between 40 and 50 houses had been damaged in two districts, he said.
The rain was to continue until Saturday, and “another spell is to start at the end of the month,” said NDMA, General Inam Haider Malik.
More than 700 people have been killed in monsoon rains since June 26, the NDMA said, with nearly 1,000 injured. The monsoon is expected to last until mid-September.
The landslides and sudden floods are common during the monsoon season, which generally starts in June and lasts until the end of September.
Pakistan is one of the most vulnerable countries in the world to the effects of climate change and faces extreme weather events.
Mousson floods overwhelmed a third of Pakistan in 2022, resulting in around 1,700 deaths.
