Balochistan Rain Emergency Deaths Rise, Homes Destroyed in Torrential Downpour
As per the PDMA report, Gwadar, Pasni, Mara, Jewani, Panjgur, and Turbat are severely affected by the torrential rains.
Around 15 people have lost their lives in rain-related accidents across the province while 40 houses were destroyed.
Hundreds of villages drowned, and link roads and bridges were damaged by water after heavy rainfall on the Pak-Iran coastal belt.
Sporadic spells of heavy rainfall lashed the border town of Chaman and adjoining areas since night. The Met Office has forecast rainfall with thunderstorm in Quetta, Gwadar, Jiwani, Kech, Awaran, Chagai, Kharan, Pasni, Ormara, Lasbela, Khuzdar, Kalat, Nushki, Jhal Magsi, Naseerabad, Sibi, Kohlu, Dera Bugti, Loralai, Harnai, Ziarat, Chaman, Pishin, Qilla Saifullah, Qilla Abdullah, Mastung, Sherani and Barkhan districts of Balochistan today amid flash floods hit the region.
Balochistan government has declared a rain and urban flood emergency due to continuous heavy rains that battered several districts of the province, killing and injuring several people across the province, a government spokesman said on Monday.
