Hundreds died in a few days associated with rain

Among the magnificent green mountains in the north of Pakistan, and the river that flows through the center, the beaten was a beautiful village until recently.

But on Friday, August 15, it was raining, and when the villagers woke up early and went to work, they didn’t know how soon everything would change.

According to the locals, the sudden torrent of the water crossed through Biystha, “bringing huge rocks with it and defeating buildings on their way, destroying the whole village.”

When the BBC URDU visited after that, the area was made by large stones, concrete blocks and uprooted trees. Without heavy cars, rescuers and locals were busy cleaned with small tools.

“There is a house under each stone. People are trying to look under these rocks to find out if they can find anyone,” the local Isar Han explained. “Houses are buried underground.”

At least 314 people were killed and 156 were killed and 156 were injured through the wide province of the Hyber Province, which started on Thursday and Friday in the evening.

The Bunner area, where Bishna is the worst victim, with 217 deaths, reports the provincial disaster (PDMA).

Another local said that many people were killed in the house where the wedding was prepared. Others told us that there were 80 to 90 households in Bishchna, most of which participated in agriculture.

50% of the houses were estimated completely destroyed in the flood. The rest no longer live.

Mussane rains from June to September deliver about three quarters of the annual rainfall. Amatans and floods are common and 650 people have already died this season.

At least 507 people were killed in Pakistan, and more than 700 were injured as a result of rain -related incidents since Musson began in late June, the National Catastrophe Agency reports.

This year, Punjab and parts of Islamabad are among the areas that were killed by heavy showers and flood flashes. But none of them was injured than the mountain north of Pakistan, where Hyber Smells and one of the most cured areas in the region lives.

Global warming causes these glaciers to cut quickly and retreat, in turn, making garbage such as rocks, soil and other materials, more vulnerable. And although the exact cause of recent floods and landslides will not be determined yet, glaciologists say that melt from ice is a factor.

Government forecasters warned that heavy rainfall was waiting until August 21 in the northwest, where several districts were declared disaster zones.

In the Swat Valley, less than 100 km from the Bunnia, the school principal saved nearly 900 students from the flood.

“It was exactly 09:00 when I was the last look at the stream and felt that it would burst its banks from the long rains,” said 59 -year -old Said Ahmad.

Mr Ahmad ordered an immediate evacuation, and for 15 minutes all teachers and children left – minutes before the Busha floods broke through the school, washing half of the building, its boundary walls and playground.

Sarwar Khan, a local advisor, said that “the director’s timely action saved 900 lives.”

Others are unlucky. Abdul Salah, who lives in Punjab told the BBC URDU that he realized that his wife, two daughters and son may have been caught in the flood of the Swat Valley.

“I started picking up numbers on my mobile as crazy but couldn’t contact my wife and children,” he said. All four of them drowned.

Meanwhile, in the banner, Asar Khan said that 27 people were still missing from his village.

Asked how the catastrophe unfolded, he breathed deeply.

“It all happened before my eyes,” he said, “and explained that although he and others were able to save some people,” the water was so strong that it had no mercy with anyone. “

The crops were flattened on both sides of the road on the pira -bab -bab. The trees were uprooted, and the vehicles were in ruins – sometimes stuck in the dirt, sometimes in the walls.

Arriving on the market, other details of destruction were visible.

The flood intensity was understood by the fact that the water reached the third floor. Some shops collapsed. Sugar bags and women’s clothing were littered in the dirt, and the vehicles are transferred to them.

The stores started working on their own, removing dirt and water from shops.

Biysten, Al-Horkam and other assistance agencies were difficult to work, and goods were distributed among people and a medical camp. Rescue and other agencies, together with the military, were busy recovery, as well as heavy equipment.

But people from distant areas also came to the area of disaster to help the victims.

At one point, two young people came and sat on a stone, and their feet were inlaid in the dirt.

“They look at the house ahead,” the other person explained.

The house is not immediately obvious – until, that is, it pointed to the foundations that once were home for 20 family members.

“Eighteen of them are gone,” he said. “Some bodies have been found and the search for others is ongoing.”

Two people survived, he added, but they were unconscious and seemed confused in the situation.

“Their understanding does not work,” he explained. “If anyone asks something, they start crying.”