(19 Aug 2025)
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Bola Khan Village, Buner, Pakistan – 19 August 2025
1. Various of Pakistan army rescue unit using sniffer dogs to search debris
2. Rescue workers removing debris where sniffer dog identified body
3. Mid of rescue team with sniffer dog
4. Various of rescue workers carrying body to ambulance
5. SOUNDBITE (Urdu) Ghulam Mustafa, Head of rescue team:
"Since yesterday we had detected 10 dead bodies, in which seven were recovered yesterday and three today. Yesterday we detected four elderly men, two were children and one woman, and so far today, we have detected one 10-year-old boy’s dead body and just now, found a 35-year-old woman.”
6. Various of flooded houses
7. Left pan shot of Hindu community Shamshan Ghat damaged by flood water
8. Various of damage at Shamshan Ghat
9. SOUNDBITE (Urdu) Chaman Lal:
"Our shop’s completely destroyed because the flood water filled the shops, and our Gurdwara (Sikh prayer place) is slightly damaged. But our Shamshan Ghat (place for Hindu community funerals) is totally destroyed, nothing left.”
10. Various of relief camp established by Bacha Khan trust
11. Social workers unloading drinking water
12. Social workers distributing free food items to flood victims
13. Heavy machinery arriving to assist with clean up
STORYLINE:
Flood rescue teams with sniffer dogs were Tuesday combing through debris in Pakistan’s northwest district of Buner, searching for victims.
Torrential rains and a cloudburst on Friday killed at least 280 people in the district in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, where about 150 people are still missing.
Since June 26, nearly 700 people have died in monsoon rain-related incidents across Pakistan, including more than 400 in the northwest, according to officials.
Rains continued Tuesday, raising fears of more flooding.
The government has issued new flood alerts, warning people to avoid travel to vulnerable areas as cloudbursts, glacial lake outburst floods and torrential rains could trigger landslides.
In Buner, army engineers were helping authorities’ clear roads through rubble in the five hardest-hit villages, where floodwaters smashed through markets and pushed boulders into shops.
80% of connecting roads were washed away, though bulldozers have opened partial routes for food and relief deliveries.
Heavy machinery was also digging through piles of rocks where survivors believe more victims may be trapped.
Authorities warned they could not rule out a repeat of Pakistan’s catastrophic 2022 floods, which killed nearly 1,700 people and were blamed on climate change.
AP Video by Muhammad Arif
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