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Over 320 Killed In Pakistan Monsoon Rains In Past 48 Hours

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By Channels Television
Updated August 16, 2025
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Mourners and locals offer funeral prayers for victims who died in incidents related to flash floods and monsoon rains in Salarzai Tehsil of Pakistan’s Bajaur district on August 15, 2025. Heavy monsoon rains triggered landslides and flash floods across northern Pakistan, killing at least 50 people in the last 24 hours, disaster authorities said August 15. (Photo by AFP)

 

The death toll from heavy monsoon rains that have triggered flash floods across northern Pakistan has risen to at least 321 people in the last 48 hours, disaster agencies said Saturday.

The majority of deaths, 307, were reported in the mountainous Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, the Provincial Disaster Management Authority said.

 

People gather near a damaged vehicle and scattered debris after the road washed out following a flash flood in Mingora, the main city of Swat Valley, in monsoon-hit northern Pakistan’s mountainous Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province on August 16, 2025. The death toll from heavy monsoon rains that have triggered flash floods across northern Pakistan has risen to at least 321 people in the last 48 hours, disaster agencies said on August 16. (Photo by Mehboob UL HAQ / AFP)

The meteorological department has issued a heavy rain alert for Pakistan’s northwest for the next few hours, urging people to take “precautionary measures”.

The provincial government also declared the severely affected mountainous areas as those in the districts of Buner, Bajaur, Swat, Shangla, Mansehra and Battagram.

 

Mourners carry the coffins of flood-affected victims after flash floods in Naryean Behaak village, some 36 kilometres north of Muzaffarabad, the capital of Pakistan-administered Kashmir, on August 15, 2025. The death toll from heavy monsoon rains that have triggered landslides and flash floods across northern Pakistan has risen to at least 194 people in the past 24 hours, the disaster authority said on August 15, 2025. (Photo by Sajjad QAYYUM / AFP)

 

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Meanwhile, the provincial rescue agency told AFP that around 2,000 rescue workers were engaged in recovering bodies from the debris and carrying out relief operations in nine affected districts.

 

EDITORS NOTE: Graphic content / Rescue workers carry the mortal remains of a victim from the site of a helicopter crash in the Pandiyali area of Mohmand district, in monsoon-hit northern Pakistan’s mountainous Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, on August 15, 2025. Landslides and flash floods triggered by heavy monsoon rains across northern Pakistan have killed at least 199 people in the past 24 hours, national and local officials said on August 15. (Photo by AFP)

“Heavy rainfall, landslides in several areas, and washed-out roads are causing significant challenges in delivering aid, particularly in transporting heavy machinery and ambulances,” Bilal Ahmed Faizi, spokesman for Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Rescue agency, told AFP.

“Due to road closures in most areas, rescue workers are travelling on foot to conduct operations in remote regions,” he added.

“They are trying to evacuate survivors, but very few people are relocating due to the deaths of their relatives or loved ones being trapped in the debris.”

 

 

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