The worst floods in Pakistan recorded in 2010, caused by exceptional monsoon conditions added to a particularly abundant summer thaw left 2,000 dead and more than 20 million persons affected.
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Flash floods, triggered by monsoon rainfall, have killed more than 100 people across Pakistan over the past weeks.
As said by Samaa correspondent, six of a family died and five others were injured when roof of a dilapidated house suddenly collapsed in a village of Bajaur Agency in today’s wee hours.
77 people were killed in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province, 32 in Punjab, 22 in Pakistan-controlled Kashmir, 13 in Balochistan and seven in Gilgit-Baltistan.
The authority said that the flood has affected around 750,000.
Flood victims of Katcha area of River Indus shift to safer places on August 5, 2015.
Along with the provincial governments, the NDMA and country’s armed forces are at the forefront in carrying out releif activities.
Meanwhile, army chief General Raheel Sharif visited the flood-hit areas of Chitral on Wednesday.
The government says at least 86 people have died and more than 600,000 people been affected as glacial melt from the Himalayas has flowed into rivers already swollen with monsoon rains which have then joined the River Indus.
According to DG ISPR Asim Bajwa, he directed the authorities concerned to continue with the relief work till flood receded, and also asked the FWO to maintain a link with the rest of the country.
The southern part of largest Punjab province is another region badly hit by the flooding.
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The NDMA and military moved tens of thousands of people to safety and provided relief goods.
