Pakistan floods: Aid needs as 119 more people perish in a single day
Pakistan is requesting additional international aid as floods decimate the nation and send residents looking for higher, drier terrain.
Flood victims in southern Sindh province wait in line outside a bank to obtain financial aid.
The US, UK, UAE, and other countries have donated to a catastrophe appeal, but more money is still required, according to officials.
One dad reported to the BBC that his daughter had perished in a flooded river.
Muhammad Fareed, a resident of the northern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province who resides in the Kaghan Valley, recalled her saying to him, "Daddy, I'm going to collect leaves for my goat."
She approached the river's shore, and a surge of water swept her away.
Salman Sufi, an interior ministry representative, told the BBC that the nation urgently needed assistance from abroad.
Pakistan has long struggled with economic problems, but he remarked that just when we were ready to find a solution, a monsoon tragedy struck.
He noted that money from numerous development initiatives had been redistributed to the impacted individuals.
Pictures of Pakistan's flooding and fear
Pakistan's Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif reportedly announced a payout of 10 billion rupees ($45 million) for those in the worst-hit Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, according to reporting in the Dawn daily.
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| In the Charsadda District of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, displaced individuals wait for assistance in an area that has been inundated. |
Thousands of people evacuated their houses in the northwest of the nation as a result of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa's rivers bursting their banks and producing intense flash floods.
According to Junaid Khan, 23, "the house that we created with years of hard labor started sinking in front of our eyes." "We watched as our dream home sank from the side of the road."
Thousands of people have been forced out of their houses in the south-eastern province of Sindh as a result of the severe damage.
In every village we passed through while traveling through Sindh, there were displaced people.
Although the full extent of the destruction in the province is not yet fully realized, the locals regard it as the biggest calamity they have ever survived.
In Pakistan, floods are not unusual, but locals claim that these rains were special. They exceeded anything that had ever been witnessed here. "Floods of biblical proportions," said one local official.
Thousands of mud homes have submerged close to the city of Larkana, and for miles all that is visible are treetops.
Thatched roofs can be seen emerging from beneath the ominous water where the water level is a little lower.
The survivors have a variety of needs. The locals in one of the villages we visit are starving. In another, they claim to have their grains but require cash to cover their other expenses.
According to Mr. Sharif, 33 million people—or 15% of the population—were affected by the floods.
He said that the damages brought on by this season's floods were equivalent to those allegedly caused by the greatest floods ever recorded in 2010–2011.
Government officials in the nation attribute the destruction to climate change.
But in the past, bad local government planning has made a bigger difference since structures were frequently built in places that were vulnerable to seasonal flooding.
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