The death toll in floods climbed to 357 from 346, whereas another 610 were injured in the country, the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) said on Monday. The authority has announced the death of 11 more people in Punjab of which 5 were reported in Gujranwala division and six in Dera Ghazi Khan division.
According to NDMA, the floods have devastated 4,032 villages and 2.5 million acres of cropped area in Punjab, Azad Kashmir, Sindh and Gilgit-Baltistan (GB), forcing thousands of people to take shelter in relief camps. The death toll in Punjab has reached 280 from 269 people, while floods have claimed the lives of 64 people in Azad Jammu and Kashmir and 13 in Gilgit-Baltistan, whereas a total of 569 people have been injured.
The authority has reported deaths of 5 more people in Gujranwala division wherein the death toll has reached 94 from 89, in Faisalabad 35 from 23, in Multan 26 from 25 persons, in D G Khan division the death toll risen to 8, in Bahawalpur division it was rise to 4 persons.
The floods have so for affected over 2 million people of which 1.75 million are in Punjab, over 223,000 people in Sindh, over 46,000 in Azad Kashmir and nearly 2,000 in GB. The flood damaged 41,485 houses in Punjab, 8,893 in Azad Kashmir and 4,845 in Gilgit-Baltistan. In Punjab, over 77,000 people are still residing in relief camps, while in the Sindh province a total 7,017 people are in relief camps.
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