The National Flood Response and Coordination Centre (NFRCC) on Sunday, in it’s detailed flood damages situation report, informed that there was no infrastructure damages reported during the last 24 hours. A total of 13,074 km roads and 392 bridges got damaged so far since the onset of monster monsoon torrential rains. The NFRCC report highlighted that the most affected districts particularly the worst affected districts of Sindh included Qambar Shahdad Kot, Jacobabad, Larkana, Khairpur, Dadu, Noshero Feroz, Thatta and Badin. In Balochistan the most affected districts included Quetta, Naseerabad, Jafarabad, Jhalmagsi, Bolan, Sohbatpur and Lesbela. The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) districts included Dir, Swat, Charsadda, Kohistan, Tank and DI Khan and in Punjab included DG Khan and Rajanpur. The report also underlined weather forecast in last 24 hours.

The weather remained hot and dry in most parts of the country. However, rain-wind and thunderstorm occurred in upper Punjab and Kashmir. However, the Recorded Highest Maximum Temperature’s (°C) were in Sibbi 41, Bhakkar, Sukkur and Rahim Yar Khan 40. In next 24 Hours, partly cloudy weather was expected in most upper parts of the country with rain-wind and thunderstorm (isolated heavy falls) in upper Punjab, Kashmir, upper KP, Islamabad and GB. “Hot and dry weather is likely to prevail elsewhere in the country.” The Army Relief Efforts included Aviation Efforts for evacuation and relief efforts. So far 619 Army Aviation helicopters sorties have been flown to various areas for evacuation of stranded people. In last 24 hours, a sortie was flown and delivered two tonnes of relief items to the flood affectees. Moreover, uptill now 4,659 stranded individuals were evacuated through helicopter sorties.

Credit: Independent News Pakistan-INP