Staff Report
RAWALPINDI: Pakistan Navy Diving and Emergency Response teams continued to the rescue and relief operations in flood affected areas across the country.
The rescue and relief operations werer underway in the flood affected areas including Dera Ismail Khan, Rajanpur, Jampur, Fazilpur and various areas of Sindh.
Pakistan Navy rescue teams having air assets, motorized boats and lifesaving equipments were providing all out support and reaching out to people in far flung remote areas.
In assistance to civil administration, provision of medical facilities was also being ensured through medical camps and mobile medical teams in the flood affected areas.
In the continuation of the rescue operations, 75 people were rescued by helicopter from Gozo area of Dadu. Some 60 other people trapped in flood water in Zahru Goth were also rescued safely.
More than 50 people rescued from Ladhan Village and four other areas of Dadu were shifted to high safe areas. Pakistan Navy resolve to continue support all countrymen in this hour of need.
‘400 children dead, 18,000 schools damaged in floods’
Staff Report
ISLAMABAD: The recent rains in Pakistan have broken the 30-year rainfall record, 1200 dead including 400 children, 1.1 million homes damaged and 160 bridges in the last two months, the United Nations International Children Emergency Funds (UNICEF) reported.
UNICEF reported that at least 16 million children, among 34 million total, have been affected by floods in the country.
The floods have damaged over 1.1 million homes, and 18,000 schools in the country, they added.
UNICEF added that the affected people need clean drinking water, unavailability of water can give rise to multiple diseases.
There are only eight weeks until the winter season starts, which will only worsen the condition, they added.
The floods have damaged 160 bridges, over 5000 km of roads and crops on over 3.5 million acres in the country, they added.
Over 800,000 cattle have been reported dead amid devastating floods in the country, they added.
