KARACHI, Pakistan – Three days of monsoon rains have killed at least 90 other people and destroyed at least 1,000 homes across Pakistan, the country’s national crisis control firm announced Tuesday, when a new wave of heavy rains hit the port city of Karachi.
Streets and have been flooded with sewage in Karachi, where drainage and sewer systems are obsolete.
Of the total number of rain-related casualties, 31 deaths were reported in the southern province of Sindh, while another 23 people were killed in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, according to the agency. He said 15 deaths were reported in the southwestern province of Balochistan and 8 in Punjab province. Thirteen other people have died in northern Pakistan, joining three others in Pakistan’s Pakistan-administered Kashmir sector.
Troops, rescuers and volunteers from the radical Islamist organization Tehreek-e-Labbaik were noticed evacuating others from the flooded residential spaces of Karachi when some families so fared into the water. Hundreds of other people affected by rain went to their relatives’ homes in the country’s largest city.
According to the national disaster management authority, troop boats evacuated three hundred other people from the rain-affected Dadu district of Sindh province, while another 1,245 people were evacuated from rain-affected Karachi spaces, where citizens said they were still waiting for help.
Dozens of cars submerged in water were noticed in Karachi.
Rain is expected to continue this week in Karachi, where Prime Minister Imran Khan sent troops this month for the local government to pump rainwater from flooded residential areas.
Monsoon rains are hitting Pakistan at a time when the government is seeking to involve the spread of coronovirus, which has caused more than 6,200 deaths since February, when the country reported its first case. Pakistan reported nine more deaths on COVID-19 on Tuesday, one of the lowest deaths since March.
Every year, many Pakistani cities struggle to cope with the annual monsoon flood, resulting in complaints about poor planning. The monsoon season runs from July to September.
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