More than 200 people died in strong monsoon floods and landslides in Pakistan and cashmere administered by Pakistan.
Most of the deaths were recorded by the catalog authorities in the mountain province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, in northwest 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 said strong precipitation was expected until August 21 in the northwest of the country, where several areas have been declared disaster areas.
In Biner, a survivor told the AFP news agency that the floods arrived as “Doomsday”.
“I heard a loud noise as if the mountain slipped. I rushed outside and I saw the whole area tremble, as if it was the end of the world,” said Azizullah.
“The ground was trembling due to the strength of the water, and it felt like death looked at me in the face.”
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.
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa said a day of mourning.
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.
