(30 Jul 2024)
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Kohat, Pakistan – 30 July 2024
1. Various of rescue workers at site of flooded home
2. Various of flooded basement
3. Floodwater
4. Pan from men talking to flooded basement
5. Damaged portion of house, with hole in wall
6. Victim’s shoe
7. Flooded house corridor, with car turned upside down
8. SOUNDBITE (Pashto) Saifullah Afridi, rescue worker in charge:
"The basement was completely flooded. First, we made a hole in the wall with an excavator then installed water pumping machines to extract the water. After that, we managed to reduce the water. And at that time, we recovered 10 dead bodies there, which we immediately moved to hospital."
7. Various of workers at site
8. People carrying coffin
9. People gathered next to bodies ahead of funeral prayers
10. Various of funeral prayers, UPSOUND (Arabic) "God is the greatest" then ending prayer with Islamic greeting, "Peace and mercy of God upon you"
11. People taking bodies toward graveyard
STORYLINE:
Heavy monsoons in northwest Pakistan triggered flash flooding, killing at least 14 people, 11 from the same family, officials said Tuesday.
The family had been sleeping in the basement of a house in Kohat, a district in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.
"The basement was completely flooded. First, we made a hole in the wall with an excavator then installed water pumping machines to extract the water," said Saifullah Afridi, a rescue worker.
"We recovered 10 dead bodies from there, which we immediately moved to hospital," he added.
Pakistan has been hit by heavy rains since early July, killing more than 60 people and damaging over 250 homes, mostly in the eastern Punjab and southwestern Baluchistan province.
Authorities warned the rains are likely to cause flash flooding next week in various parts of the country.
Still, weather forecasters say the country will receive less rain than in 2022 when the climate-induced downpour swelled rivers and, at one point, inundated a third of the country, killing 1,739, displacing nearly 8 million, and causing $30 billion in damage in the cash-strapped country.
Every year, many cities in Pakistan struggle with the annual monsoon deluge, from July through September, drawing criticism for poor government planning.
AP video shot by Muhammad Arif
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