Over 1,000 people have been reported dead as the widespread flooding from a deadly monsoon is threatening to submerge Pakistan, according to the Pakistan Climate Minister on Sunday.
The seasonal monsoon has begun in mid-June had become a serious climate problem the minister had asserted.
The death toll, ever since the monsoon season had begun in mid-June, which was earlier than anticipated, had reached about 1,061 people after new fatalities were announced across the different provinces as of Saturday. This was according to the Pakistani National Disaster Management Authority.
Flash flooding from the heavy rains has washed away villages and crops as soldiers and rescue workers are fighting to rescue the stranded residents to the safety of relief camps and provide food to thousands of displaced Pakistanis.
All four of the country’s provinces with an estimated 300,000 homes have been destroyed, due to the unprecedented monsoon. Also, several roads have been rendered impassable and electricity outages have been widespread in the country, affecting millions of people in the process.
“We are at the moment at the ground zero of the front line of extreme weather events, in an unrelenting cascade of heatwaves, forest fires, flash floods, multiple glacial lake outbursts, flood events and now the monster monsoon of the decade is wreaking non-stop havoc throughout the country,” she said.
