(15 Aug 2025)
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Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, Pakistan – 15 August 2025
++NIGHT SHOTS++
1. Various of damaged buildings following flash floods
2. Various of injured people inside Daggar hospital with relatives
3. Close of injured person’s bandaged feet
4. Various of wrapped bodies of victims in hospital awaiting verification
5. Various of people gathered outside hospital
6. SOUNDBITE (Urdu) Shahnawaz Khan, rescue worker:
"We rescued as many people as we could. The speed of the flash floods then increased and then rescue teams started their operations and with the help of locals we rescued people. Relatives have identified around 130 bodies at the hospital which have been handed over to legal heirs and some of them are lying without identification and these bodies are being identified. We have received information that some bodies are still lying in different flood affected areas."
7. Mid of hospital sign
8. Various of people gathered outside hospital
9. Various of coffins of victims of flash floods
10. Various of people inside hospital
11. Coffin being taken away on back of truck
STORYLINE:
Flash floods triggered by torrential rains have killed over 280 people in India and Pakistan and left scores of others missing, officials said Friday, as rescuers brought to safety some 1,600 people from two mountainous districts in the neighboring countries.
Flooding began a day earlier in Indian-controlled Kashmir and spread to the north and northwest in Pakistan, triggered by sudden, intense downpours over small areas.
The floods and subsequent landslides injured dozens of people and forced the evacuation and rescue of thousands of others, particularly in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.
Such cloudbursts are increasingly common in India’s Himalayan regions and Pakistan’s northern areas, and experts have said climate change is a contributing factor.
Leaders in both countries offered their condolences to the victims’ families and assured them of swift relief.
In northern and northwestern Pakistan, flash floods killed at least 243 people, including 157 who died Friday in the Buner district in northwest Pakistan.
Mohammad Suhail told The Associated Press that dozens of people were still missing, and rescue operations were underway.
He said 78 bodies were recovered by midday Friday, and another 79 were pulled from the rubble of collapsed homes and flooded villages later.
“The death toll may rise as we are still looking for dozens of missing people,” Suhail said.
Dozens were injured as the deluge destroyed homes in villages in Buner, where authorities declared a state of emergency on Friday.
Rescuers backed by boats and helicopters worked to reach stranded residents.
Ambulances transported more than 100 bodies to hospitals, according to a government statement.
Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, at an emergency meeting, ordered the disaster-management authority to ensure the evacuation of tourists and all those hit by the floods.
The latest fatalities bring the total number of rain-related deaths to 556 since June 26, according to the National Disaster Management Authority.
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