Pakistan - Violence, monsoon floods (DG ECHO, NDMA Pakistan, PMD, PDMA Khyber Pakhtunkhwa) (ECHO Daily Flash of 31 July 2023)

The death toll from rain and flood related incidents reached 179, with over 264 people injured, mostly in Punjab (67) and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP;51). Similarly, 1,594 houses were damaged, mostly in Balochistan (445).

In Sindh, 183 villages of district Dadu were affected as access roads are flooded; 70 villages of Pir Jo Goth and Gambat were severed after the Indus river inundated Katcha area of Khairpur district; 324 houses were damaged in Jacobabad and Sukkur districts.

In Balochistan, the government has declared Jafferabad, Sohbatpur, Kharan, Jhal Magsi, Punjgoor, and Washuk districts as calamity hit and requested humanitarian assistance. In Washuk and Kharan districts, 2,800 houses were damaged due to flash floods after the Panjgur-Newan dam has been broken by recent monsoon.

In Gilgit-Baltistan region, flash floods and mudslides blocked Karakoram Highway; 80 houses have been damaged and 250 km of roads have been affected.

A bomb blast at a political rally has killed over 46 people and injured 200 on 30 July, in Bajur tribal district of KP. Emergency has been declared in hospitals of neighboring districts.