Staff Reporter
ISLAMABAD: The torrential monsoon rains across the country on Monday continued claiming further lives and inflicting losses to property as the total death count in various incidents reached 1,136 with 75 more deaths in past 24 hours and 1,634 individuals got injured since the onset of the rainy season. The National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) issued a 24-hour situation report released on routine basis that accounted overall life, property, and infrastructure losses incurred by the heavy rains lashing out various parts of the country.
The heavy rains and flashfloods caused deaths of two men in Mastung and as many injured in Noshki.
In Khyber Pakhtunkhwa some 16 perished due to roof collapse and flash flood in various districts including two men in Lower Dir, one in Swat, four men and two children in DI Khan, four men in Batagram, one man in Kohistan, one man in Bajaur, and one child in Lakki Marwat.
However, 31 people were reported as injured including three men in DI Khan, one man in lower Kohistan, one in Lakki Marwat, one in Torghar, one in Upper Kohistan, five men and seven children in South Waziristan, two women in Bajaur, one woman and three children in Khyber, and four in Shangla.
The data reconciled by the NDMA mentioned that one man injured figure was reduced by the SDMA, Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) including the number of one man reported dead on August 27.
In Sindh, 53 people perished including 14 men, 15 women and 21 child in Larkana, one man and a child in Hyderabad and a child in Shaheed Benazirabad.
In Gilgit Baltistan (GB), two men, two women and child were reported dead whereas a man was injured whereas more details were to follow.
In Gilgit Baltistan (GB), N140 Ghizer Road, N-35 of 288 kilometers (km) at 3 locations 288 (Mata Banda Zaid Khad Nala), 303 km (Achar Nullah) and at 323 km (Lutar) were blocked.
