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Pakistan - Severe weather and floods, update (DG ECHO Partners, media, PMD) (ECHO Daily Flash of 01 July 2024)

  • The pre-monsoon rains lashed parts of Baluchistan over the weekend. Eight people died, dozens injured, and more than 300 mud houses collapsed.
  • The landslide between Danasar and Dera Ismail Khan blocked the major highway suspending traffic.
  • The rains started on 28 June and continued over the weekend in Zhob, Sherani, Qila Saifullah, Barkhan, Musakhail, Dera Bugti, and Loralai areas of the province.
  • Pakistan Meteorological Depart­ment (PMD) predicts more rain-windstorm/thundershower likely at isolated places in Zhob, Musa Khel, Qila Saifullah, Loralai, Barkhan, Khuzdar, Awaran, Lasbella and coastal areas of Makran during evening/night.
  • Severe heatwave caused nine more deaths in Karachi over the last two days. In Sindh, the number of heatstroke cases increased to 6,312 as of 29 June.