Overview

• NDMA and PDMA report over 350 fatalities in mid-August flash floods in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, raising the season’s death toll to more than 600 since late June.
• Army engineers and heavy machinery are clearing landslides and damaged roads that had isolated mountain communities during torrential rains.
• Search-and-rescue efforts resumed in Buner district once rainfall eased to locate hundreds still missing after sudden torrents swept away homes.
• The Pakistan Meteorological Department has warned of intensifying monsoon currents and more very heavy rain through late August, heightening flood and landslide risks.
• Lieutenant General Inam Haider said Pakistan does not require foreign assistance and has sent tents, blankets, food, medicines and generators to affected communities.