Rescue, relief operation underway in flood affected areas

ISLAMABAD: The rescue and relief operation is underway in rain and flood affected areas of different parts of the country.
Pakistan Air Force is actively engaged in rescue and relief operations in flood affected areas of Balochistan, Sindh and South Punjab.
According to PAF spokesperson, PAF emergency response teams are continuously busy in evacuating flood victims to safer places. According to Punjab Provincial Disaster Management Authority spokesman institutions are busy in relief activities in the flood hit areas.
Over forty-two thousand persons have been rescued from flood hit areas while medical treatment has been provided to more than seventy three thousand affectees. He said that ninety-nine flood relief camps are functional for flood affectees, where necessary facilities are being provided to them.
Presiding over a rain emergency and relief meeting in Karachi, Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah constituted district-level committees comprising the deputy commissioner concerned, representatives from Corps-V, engineering Corps, local government, PDMA, and local representatives to start relief, rescue, and survey and damages assessment to provide proper relief to the rain-affected people. In Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, nine people died and six others got injured in different parts of of the province due to recent rains related incidents.
According to a report issued by the KP Provincial Disaster Management Authority in Peshawar today, three houses were destroyed and eight partially damaged.
Efforts are underway to open blocked roads for traffic in Shangla, Swat and Dir Upper. Meanwhile, six relief camps have been set up in Dera Ismail Khan where food and relief packages have been distributed among the affected people.
Director General PDMA said thirty-five truck relief goods have been dispatched to Dera Ismail Khan while nine to Upper Chitral for distribution among the rain and flood affectees.
Similarly, two hundred tents, four hundred mattresses, three hundred and fifty blankets and other non-food items were dispatched to Upper Chitral. In Balochistan, rescue teams of Provincial Disaster Management Authority evacuated 20 people including women and children who were stranded due to heavy rain at Nawa Killi in Quetta today.-NNI