ISLAMABAD
Nineteen people, in addition to nine children, have lost their lives to rain- and flood-related injuries across Pakistan in the past 24 hours, bringing the death toll to more than 1,200, according to official statistics released friday.
Twelve deaths were reported in southern Sindh, 4 in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and 3 in Balochistan provinces.
A total of another 1,208 people have died, adding 416 children, and 6,082 have been injured since mid-June, when the country hit hard the heavy rains and floods that followed, the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) said.
Torrential rains and flooding have affected more than 33 million people in 80 districts across the country, the NDMA said.
Constant rains and raging flooding have already destroyed much of the infrastructure and farmland across the country, adding tens of thousands of homes, roads and bridges, and dragging nearly a million animals.
According to the NDMA, another 472,313 people have been displaced to reception camps and another 121,630 people have been evacuated from the worst-affected areas.
Heavy flooding also destroyed more than 1. 17 million homes, of which 436,307 were destroyed. 733,488 animals also died.
Meanwhile, humanitarian aid to Pakistan has continued following the devastating floods.
Another Turkish flight with relief landed at Karachi’s Jinnah International Airport on Thursday night.
This is the tenth of those flights from Turkey with tents, food parcels, baby food, blankets and other relief items.
“Pakistan is grateful to the government and other people of Türkiye for this valuable in these times of unprecedented disaster,” the Foreign Ministry said in a statement.
The country has won humanitarian aid from the United Arab Emirates, Qatar and Uzbekistan.
Turkish Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu and Turkish Minister of Environment, Urban Planning and Climate Change Murat Kurum arrived in Islamabad on Friday morning to meet with their counterparts.
Soylu and Kurum were received by Pakistani Federal Ministers Rana Sanaullah, Sherry Rehman, Ahsan Iqbal and Turkey’s Ambassador to Pakistan, Dr. Mehmet Pacaci, at the Turkish Embassy in Islamabad.