Overview

• National officials reported at least 185 fatalities from flash floods on August 14–15, with about 171 deaths in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa including 78 in Buner district.
• The National Disaster Management Authority put the season-to-date rain-related death toll at 556 since June 26, conflicting with another agency’s count of 498.
• Provincial authorities declared an emergency in Buner after cloudbursts and landslides destroyed hundreds of homes, washed away roads and inundated villages.
• A provincial MI-17 helicopter carrying relief supplies crashed in Mohmand district on August 14, killing all five crew members and grounding further air operations.
• Rescuers evacuated more than 1,300 tourists cut off by landslides in Mansehra’s Siran Valley, and the Pakistan Meteorological Department warns of continued heavy rainfall.