At least 11 people were killed and 25 injured in rain-related incidents across the country over the past 24 hours, bringing the nationwide monsoon death toll to 97 since late June, the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) said on Sunday. According to a daily situation report issued by the NDMA, Punjab recorded the highest number of casualties during the reporting period, with seven deaths and 20 injuries, followed by Sindh with two deaths and two injuries, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa with one death and three injuries, and Gilgit-Baltistan with one death. {{pdf}} According to the authority, house collapses accounted for 54.5% of the fatalities, followed by drowning (27.3%) and lightning strikes (18.2%).
The cumulative toll from June 26 to July 25 now stands at 97 deaths and 297 injuries nationwide. K-P has reported the highest number of fatalities with 52 deaths, followed by Punjab reporting 29 deaths, Azad Jammu and Kashmir reporting seven, Balochistan recording 6, Sindh with two deaths, and G-B with one death reported. The NDMA said 22 houses were damaged in the past 24 hours, including 17 partially damaged and five destroyed, while eight livestock were lost.
Since the start of the monsoon season, 447 houses have been damaged—338 partially and 109 completely—and 269 livestock have perished. It added that 0.9 kilometres of roads were damaged by landslides and rising water levels in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Gilgit-Baltistan, disrupting traffic at several locations, with restoration work underway. PMD nationwide weather advisory In a separate weather advisory, the Pakistan Meteorological Department (PMD) forecast scattered rain, wind and thunderstorms across parts of the country over the next 24 hours and warned of flash flooding in the hill torrents of Dera Ghazi Khan and northeastern Balochistan, as well as urban flooding in parts of southeastern Sindh.
The PMD said scattered rain, wind and thunderstorms are expected over the upper catchments of major rivers, Islamabad, Kashmir and G-B, as well as parts of K-P, Punjab, Sindh and Balochistan during the next 24 hours. The department said no flood-generating rainfall is expected until July 28, but a fresh spell of monsoon rains is likely to begin from July 29 over the upper catchments of major rivers, Islamabad, upper Punjab, K-P, Kashmir and G-B. The NDMA said provincial authorities distributed 386 relief items…
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