Overview

• Pakistan’s disaster management authority reports 634 people dead and 768 injured since late June monsoon, with Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa accounting for about half of the fatalities over the past 48 hours.
• Flash floods and landslides swept away homes and vehicles, causing three-quarters of deaths and contributing to electrocutions and lightning casualties.
• A Pakistan Army MI-17 rescue helicopter crashed en route to the Bajaur district in worsening weather, killing its five crew members and reducing aerial relief capacity.
• Over 2,000 rescuers face blocked roads, landslips and damaged bridges, forcing many search teams to proceed on foot to recover bodies and assist survivors.
• In Indian-administered Kashmir’s Kishtwar district, a sudden mudflow washed away a makeshift pilgrims’ kitchen in Chisoti, leaving roughly 60 confirmed dead and 80 missing.