Recent reports have revealed that the death toll from monsoon flooding which had occurred in Pakistan since June has finally reached 1,033, according to some of the figures which had been released Sunday by the country’s National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA).
The group had announced that 119 people had died in the previous 24 hours as heavy rains continued to lash parts of the country.
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The annual monsoon is essential for irrigating crops and replenishing lakes and dams across the Indian subcontinent, but each year it also brings a wave of destruction.
Officials say this year’s monsoon flooding has affected more than 33 million people — one in seven Pakistanis — destroying or badly damaging nearly a million homes.
The NDMA had also announced that more than two million acres of cultivated crops have been wiped out, 3,451 kilometres (2,150 miles) of roads destroyed, and 149 bridges washed away.
In another report, no fewer than 180 people have been confirmed to have died and 3,000 homes destroyed following heavy floods in Afghanistan over the past month, a government spokesman disclosed on Friday.
Zabihullah Mujahid pointed out that the scale of the damage done in the country had been worse because of the mismanagement of infrastructure by the previous government.
Africa Today News, New York reports that the hardline Taliban regime that returned to power a year ago is also struggling to cope.
‘If the floods and the losses increase, the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan does not have that many resources to respond to all of it,’ Mujahid told a press conference in Kabul.
Heavy rains have lashed several provinces, with the worst of the flooding in the east of the country.