Summary:
Heavy monsoon rains together with glacial lake outburst floods (GLOF) which started in mid-July caused 238 deaths across Pakistan with highest number of deaths recorded in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) (109 people died as per Pakistan’s National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) report). Overall, the affected provinces included KP, Gilgit Baltistan (GB), Punjab, Baluchistan and Sindh.
According to national statistics, KP and Punjab are amongst the worst hit with an increased number of affected people in Sindh over the past weeks. The flooding caused damaged to houses, crops and infrastructure, and left over one million people affected.
According to the latest figures provided by NDMA dated 13 September 2015, 1,572,191 people are affected by the recent floods in more than 4,111 villages, with 238 reported deaths and 232 people injured. More than one million people were evacuated with 835 relief camps established, out of which 210 are still operational in Sindh. Assessments in Sindh and KP are still on going and the consolidated figures do not include the total number of houses damaged in Sindh, villages affected in Baluchistan and, villages and population affected in KP.