INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
With 57 more deaths over the past 24 hours, the death toll from the raging floods in Pakistan has reached 1,265, the country&s national
disaster agency said on Saturday.Of the latest fatalities, most of the deaths, 38, have been reported from the southern province of Sindh,
where a fresh spell of floods has inundated more land in the central districts over the past 48 hours, pushing the overall tally in the
province to 502 since mid-June, Anadolu Agency reported.Another 17 people were killed in separate flood-related incidents in the
northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, which has also been hit hard by the floods caused by torrential rains.Since June 14, a total of
285 people have died in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, followed by 257 fatalities in the southwestern Balochistan province, according to the National
Disaster Management Authority (NDMA).Some 188 people have died in the northeastern Punjab province, the authority said, Anadolu
reported.Many people who are already marooned are now bracing for the peak of high flood at the Kotri barrage, located some 150 kilometers
from Karachi on Saturday before the flow is released for the Indus Delta downstream.Footage aired on local broadcaster Geo News showed
hundreds of desperate people, including in the towns of Khairpur Nathan Shah, Johi, and Shadadkot in central Sindh, placing sand and
sand-packed bags in an attempt to consolidate embankments against the gushing floodwaters, Anadolu reported.Floods caused by unprecedented
rains have inundated a third of the country, prompting the government to issue an international appeal.Constant rains and raging floods have
already destroyed a large chunk of the country&s infrastructure and agricultural lands, including tens of thousands of houses, roads, and
bridges, as well as washing away over a million animals.Almost 45% of the country&s cropland has already been inundated by the floods,
posing a serious threat to food security and further adding to the already skyrocketing inflation, Anadolu reported.The post Death toll from
Pakistan floods reaches 1,265 first appeared on Ariana News.
