(19 Aug 2024)
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Sohbat Pur, Baluchistan Province, Pakistan – 19 August 2024
1. Various of flooded roads, machinery working, officials and villagers
2. People walking through floodwater
3. Pan of heavy machinery working at flooded site, road washed away
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Jhal Magsi, Baluchistan Province, Pakistan – 19 August 2024
4. Floodwater breaking embankment
5. Flooded road
6. SOUNDBITE (Urdu) Feroza Bi Bi, local resident:
“The embarkment is broken, floodwater entered our village and houses, nothing is left, everything is washed away, our groceries and children’s clothes too.”
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Washuk, Baluchistan Province, Pakistan – 19 August 2024
7. Shot of heavy rain
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Sukkur, Sindh Province, Pakistan – 19 August 2024
8. Various of flooded streets, people walking through flood water
9. SOUNDBITE (Urdu) Dr. Muhammad Bakhsh Dhrejo, Deputy Commissioner of Sukkur:
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“For the last three days, a (weather) system had formed in Sukkur, which brought heavy rain here in the region. The most rain fell in Sukkur – we had five heavy spells – and after calculating all these spells, 281 millimetres of rain was recorded.”
10. Various of Sukkur government workers clearing sewage line
11. SOUNDBITE (Urdu) Dr. Muhammad Bakhsh Dhrejo, Deputy Commissioner of Sukkur:
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“As far as the matter is concerned, after such heavy spells, the Sukkur administration and Sukkur municipal corporation and municipal committee that we had in the different places, all of them responded immediately and rapidly, and four or five times we have drawn out all of this water again and again, so we did not allow it to accumulate. Because of this an emergency situation did not turn into a crisis.”
12. Various of man showing his house full of floodwater, UPSOUND (Urdu) “See all of my house is full of water"
13. SOUNDBITE (Urdu) Mohsin Ali Shah, local resident:
“We have had rain for the last three days and the water is here and not receding. The city mayor is claiming that they are doing a lot, but I don’t know what they have done, what is the problem with them, whether their machines are broken or they don’t have the capability to handle the situation. You can see that the situation remains the same.”
14. Zoom out of woman walking through floodwater ++MUTE++
15. Local residents walking through floodwater ++MUTE++
STORYLINE:
Flash floods triggered by the latest spell of monsoon rains flooded streets in southern Pakistan and blocked a key highway in the north, officials said on Monday, as the death toll from rain-related incidents rose to 209 since July 1.
Fourteen people died in various parts of Punjab province in the past 24 hours, an official at the provincial disaster management authority said.
Most of the deaths occurred in the Punjab, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and southern Sindh provinces.
Pakistan is in the middle of the annual monsoon season, which runs from July through September.
Scientists and weather forecasters have blamed climate change for heavy rains in recent years.
The ongoing rains, however, are weaker compared to 2022, when climate-induced downpours swelled rivers and inundated one-third of the country at one point, killing 1,739 people and causing 30 billion US dollars in damage.
Pakistan’s Meteorological Department said that the latest heavy spell of rains would continue this week in various parts of the country.
Flash floods have damaged some bridges in the north, disrupting traffic.
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