The collapse, triggered by heavy rain, occurred at around 2:10 a.m. on Wednesday on the Meizhou-Dabu Expressway, Xinhua news agency reported, adding that the collapsed section was 17.9 meters in length and caused 23 vehicles to plunge. Meizhou is one of the areas in southern China’s Guangdong that has been badly hit by heavy rain […]
Three provinces in the nation are at higher danger of flooding as a result of the country’s continuous spring rains, which prompted the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) to advise concerned authorities to exercise caution. The NDMA spokesman said in a statement released on Friday that Pakistan may continue to experience sporadic showers till April […]
Nine die of gastroenteritis, diarrhoea and malaria in Sindh in the last 24 hours as the crisis overwhelms the country’s health system. Islamabad, Pakistan – Water-borne diseases are a new concern in flood-ravaged Pakistan, with the authorities reporting at least nine such deaths in the last 24 hours, according to government data. All the deaths caused by diarrhoea, […]
Angelina Jolie, a famous American actress, filmmaker, humanitarian, and United Nations (UN) Special Envoy, is visiting Pakistan to see the devastation caused by unprecedented monsoon rains and floods in the country. Angelina Jolie is set to visit flood-ravaged Pakistan, the International Rescue Committee (IRC) said in a statement Monday, in a trip intended to draw international […]
The worst floods in memory may have occasioned a reset in relations, but Imran Khan could still prove a spoiler. As millions of Pakistanis reel from the worst floods in living memory, national and international humanitarian rescue and relief efforts have coincided with a notable political development: a slow-but-steady resumption of high-level contact between Pakistan and the […]
Says thousands of km of highways, millions of livestock affected, and over a million houses damaged(flood damage). The Senate Standing Committee on Planning was apprised by the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) on Friday that the devastating floods had affected 5,063 kilometers of highways and 243,733,488 livestock as well as damaged more than 1.17 million […]
Balochistan, the country`s area-wise largest province of Pakistan, is faced with an electricity crisis in these flash floods. A power supply of 220kV has been stopped from Uch-Sibi transmission line to the province on Thursday, August 26 afternoon, the Quetta Electric Supply Company (QESCO) spokesperson said. Due to the suspension of 220kV from the Sibbi […]
Pakistan is racing to prevent further loss of life as it reels from one of its worst climate disasters with floodwater threatening to cover up to a third of the country of 220 million people by the end of the monsoon season. Climate change minister Sherry Rehman said Sunday the unprecedented rain had created […]
With the flood death toll hitting 937 and still on the rise, the government of Pakistan has declared the monsoon rain-induced floods a “climate-inducted humanitarian crisis of epic proportions”. Leaving 30 million people shelter-less, the floods have caused tremendous damage. The government, both provincial and federal, and many non-governmental organisations are working hard to provide relief to […]
Since June of 2022, floods caused by monsoon rains and melting glaciers in Pakistan killed at least 1,003 people, including 340 children and six military officers in a helicopter crash and over 1,700 more were injured. It is world’s deadliest flood since 2017. Heavy monsoon rainfall and floods have affected 30 million people in Pakistan since mid-June, destroying nearly 218,000 […]
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