Sudden floods kill more than 160 in Pakistan

At least 164 people died in the last 24 hours in strong floods and landslides in Pakistani cashmere and Pakistan.

Most of the deaths, 150, were recorded by the catastroapistic authorities of the mountainous Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in northern Pakistan. At least 30 houses were destroyed and a rescue helicopter crashed during the operations, killing his team of five.

Nine other people were killed in cashmere administered by Pakistan, while five died in the northern region of Gilgit-Baltistan, said.

Government forecasters declared that high precipitation was expected until August 21 and that there is a strong rain alert for the northwest of the country. Several regions have been declared disaster areas.

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s chief minister Ali Amin GaDapur said that the M-17 helicopter crashed due to bad weather when he went to Bajaur, a region bordering Afghanistan.

In Bajaur, a crowd was around an excavator who falls from a hill soaked in mud, showed AFP photos. Funeral prayers started in a nearby paddock, with mourning people in front of several bodies covered with blankets.

On Friday, in the part administered by the cashmere Indians, the rescuers pulled bodies from mud and rubble after a flood crashed in a Himalayan village, killing at least 60 people and washing tens of more.

The monsoon rains between June and September offer approximately three -quarters of the annual precipitation of South Asia. The landslides and the floods are common and 300 people died during the season of this year.

In July, Punjab, housing almost half of the 255 million people in Pakistan, recorded 73% more precipitation than the previous year and more deaths than throughout the previous monsoon.

Scientists say that climate change has made weather events more extreme and more frequent.