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August 27, 2025 | 11:27 pm
TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Heavy rains person inundated parts of Pakistan and India, prompting flash floods successful Jammu and Indian-administered Kashmir. At slightest 34 radical person died and galore others are missing owed to landslides on the Hindu pilgrimage route, arsenic reported by the Press Trust of India arsenic quoted by CNA on Wednesday, August 27, 2025.
Landslides connected Tuesday adjacent the Vaishno Devi Temple connected the celebrated pilgrimage way person killed astatine slightest 34 people, reported ANI.
This is the latest catastrophe caused by downpours successful the Himalayan region, which killed 60 radical and near 200 missing successful Kishtwar successful Indian-controlled Kashmir past week.
Near Jammu, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said that the rainfall reached 368 mm connected Tuesday.
Schools person been ordered to beryllium closed successful galore areas of Jammu, Himachal Pradesh, and Punjab successful bluish India.
Authorities are struggling to reconstruct telecommunication services, which are "almost non-existent," said Omar Abdullah, the main curate of Jammu and Kashmir.
Flooding successful Pakistan
Authorities successful the Punjab state of eastbound Pakistan on Wednesday, arsenic reported by Arab News, requested subject assistance successful rescue and alleviation efforts aft dense rains caused large rivers to overflow, inundating villages and forcing much than 150,000 radical to flee, officials said.
Rescue teams evacuated much than 20,000 radical overnight from the outskirts of Lahore, Pakistan's second-largest city, which besides faces the hazard of flooding. Those evacuated from areas adjacent Lahore are surviving on the banks of the Ravi River, said Irfan Ali Kathia, manager wide of the Punjab Disaster Management Authority.
Mass evacuations began earlier this week successful six districts of Punjab aft heavier-than-usual monsoon rains and the overflow of h2o from dams successful the neighboring state of India triggered flash floods successful the low-lying borderline areas, Kathia said.
Weather forecasters foretell that rainfall volition proceed to autumn crossed the portion this week. Heavy rains and flash floods successful the Himalayan portion person killed astir 100 radical successful August.
Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif praised the authorities connected Wednesday for timely evacuations to debar casualties and said that alleviation supplies and tents are being provided to the affected people, according to a authorities statement.
Kathia warned that the floodwaters successful the Ravi, Chenab, and Sutlej rivers is rising dangerously and galore villages are submerged successful the districts of Kasur, Okara, Bahawalnagar, Bahawalpur, Vehari, and Sialkot.
Rescue teams person been utilizing boats to evacuate radical to safer places this week, Kathia said.
India warned Pakistan astir the anticipation of cross-border floods done diplomatic channels and not done the Indus Water Commission, which is simply a imperishable mechanics based connected the Indus Water Treaty mediated by the World Bank successful 1960.
New Delhi suspended the commission's enactment aft the deaths of 26 tourists successful April successful Indian-controlled Kashmir, adjacent though Islamabad insists that India cannot unilaterally cancel the agreement.
The latest flood informing comes arsenic rescue teams with sniffer dogs hunt for much than 150 radical reported missing earlier this period aft flash floods killed much than 300 residents successful 3 villages successful the Buner territory successful the northwest.
Floods person killed much than 800 radical successful Pakistan since precocious June.
Scientists accidental that climate change has triggered heavier monsoon rains successful South Asia, raising concerns of a recurrence of the 2022 upwind catastrophe that deed a 3rd of Pakistan's country and killed 1,739 people.
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