Lightning floods kill more than 160 in Pakistan

At least 164 people have died in the last 24 hours in heavy monsoon floods and landslides in Pakistan and Pakistan, administered by Kashmir.

The greater part of the deaths, 150, are recorded by the disaster organs in the mountain hiber Pakhtunva in northern Pakistan. At least 30 homes were destroyed and a rescue helicopter crashed during operations, killing his five crews.

Nine more people were killed in Pakistan Kashmir administered, while five were killed in the northern Gilgit-Baltistan region, the statement said.

Government forecasts said heavy rainfall is expected by August 21 and there is a heavy rainy signal for the northwestern part of the country. Several regions have been declared disaster areas.

Chief Minister of Hiber Pahtunva, Ali Amin Gadapur, said the M-17 helicopter crashed because of the bad weather while flying to Bajour, a region bordering Afghanistan.

In Bajour, the crowd accumulated around an excavator that is a hill soaked in mud shows AFP photos. The funeral prayers began in the padding nearby, with people grieving in front of several bodies covered with blankets.

In the Indian administered part of cashmere, rescuers pulled bodies of mud and rubble on Friday after flooding crashes through a Himalayan villageKilling at least 60 people and washing more.

The monsoon rains between June and September deliver about three quarters of the annual rainfall in South Asia. The landslides and floods are common and 300 people died during this year’s season.

In July, Punjab, a home of almost half of the 255 million people in Pakistan, recorded 73% more rainfall than the previous year and more deaths than in the entire previous monsoon.

Scientists say climate change made meteorological events more extreme and more frequent.