KP government declares an emergency in Swat till August 30 amid extreme flooding Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government has declared an emergency in Swat. The scale of devastation caused by extreme flooding in the district reached out of control following record rains. Provincial authorities are facing difficulty in rescuing affected families from hill stations of Swat, Dir, and […]
ISLAMABAD: The National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) on Sunday advised all concerned provincial and federal ministries and emergency departments to ensure prior arrangements to cope with flash floods predicted in rivers and nullahs of Eastern Balochistan. According to the NDMA advisory, the Flood Forecasting Division (FFD) has forecasted moderate flash flooding in the rivers and nullahs of […]
As waters receded on Saturday, Germans in the country’s west surveyed scenes of destruction; grieved over a rising death toll and confronted questions about how the country’s flood control systems had been so quickly overwhelmed by one of the most extreme rainfalls on record. The death toll in Germany climbed to at least 143 on […]
At least seven people were killed and more than 100 people are missing after a glacier burst; triggering flash floods in India’s northern Uttarakhand state on Sunday. The flood was caused; when a portion of the Nanda Devi glacier broke off; in the Tapovan area of the northern state of Uttarakhand on Sunday morning. The […]