Pakistan braces for more floods

By Xinhua News Agency

Aug 29, 2022 12:08 am

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan's National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) said very high and above-level flooding is likely to continue in River Kabul in Nowshera district of Pakistan's northwest Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province during the next 24 hours.

River Indus at Kalabagh and Chashma areas in the country's eastern Punjab province is also likely to have high to very high flood levels during the next 24 to 48 hours, the NDMA said in its advisory report on Saturday evening.

WATER-CAUSED WOES People ride motorbikes on a waterlogged road in northwest Pakistan’s Charsadda on Saturday, Aug. 27, 2022. At least 45 people were killed and 113 others injured in heavy monsoon rain-triggered flash floods and other rain-related incidents in the last 24 hours in Pakistan, the National Disaster Management Authority said. XINHUA PHOTO

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