Thousands evacuated after the “exceptionally high” floods

Some 200,000 people have been evacuated while the floods devastate parts of the Punjab province of Pakistan.

The rescuers transported security residents in boats after the catastromic authorities warned of “exceptionally high” floods along the RAI, Sutlej and Chenab rivers. Several districts have called in the army to help.

This occurs after Pakistani officials said that India had warned that it would release water from large dams upstream, recognizing that this would flood parts of what is the most populous province in Pakistan.

The two countries have undergone intense precipitation in recent weeks, the monsoon rains killing more than 800 people in Pakistan since June.

The country’s National Disaster Management (NDMA) in the country has warned people in the affected areas to stay away from rivers, drains and low areas.

Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said the federal government would cooperate fully with regional authorities to avoid the risk of flooding, in particular in the urban areas of Gujarat, Siackot and Lahore – the second most populated city in Pakistan.

SIALKOT has experienced more precipitation in 24 hours than the highest record in the past 49 years, according to the main meteorologists in Pakistan. This left cars, houses and submerged buildings.

Many residents of the city are blocked, said the Federal Minister of Planning at the BBC.

The rescuers have done door-to-door in the villages, moved residents and their cattle by boat.

These boats have saved more than 32,000 people trapped by flood waters, reports the reuters news agency, citing local officials.

The BBC traveled alongside the rescuers while evacuating hundreds of people from a village in the Kasur district, on the border with India.

The Sutlej river had overflowed, overwhelming the houses and loyal the walls which were intended to protect them.

A resident, Nadeem Ahmad, told us that he refused to leave.

He has done several evacuations over the years and said his family just couldn’t afford to leave once again.

He showed us the dozens of cows he keeps near his home and the hay he stores to feed them. “I already use their winter supply,” he said.

Others have accepted the help of emergency teams, choosing to stay in shelters or with friends and parents who live on higher land.

We joined more than 20 men, women and children who had nailed themselves together on a small boat. A woman rocked her two -month -old child on her lap while the boat was passing through brown currents.

These floods are ruinous for many families in a country where more than 40% of people live below the poverty line.

This is why many people who have spoken in the past two days said they refused to evacuate.

They prefer to try their luck – protect as much from their goods and their property as they can – even if it means risking their lives.

About half of the residents of a village that we visited, a community of around 3,000 people located two hours from Lahore, refused to evacuate.

According to disaster authorities in Pakistan, Wednesday floods follow a warning from India that he would release water from large dams upstream.

When India’s tanks are exceeded, the release of water can cause strong downstream floods – which occurs through the punjab expanses of Pakistan, according to officials.

The warning of India was a rare moment of public diplomacy between the two countries, which underwent their most important military conflict in decades in May.

The two were ravaged by floods after extreme monsoon rains.

On Tuesday, a landslide on the road to the popular Hindu Sanctuary Vahno Devi killed at least 30 people to the cashmere administered by the Indians, officials said.