Thousands of evacuated after “exclusively high” floods

Azad Moshire

Pakistani correspondent in Sialkot

Jan Eikman

BBC NEWS, in London

Watch: Rescuers are in a hurry to evacuate residents from immersed areas in Punjab

About 200,000 people were evacuated when the floods are devastating parts of the Pakistani province of Punjab.

Rescuers brought the residents to the boats after the disasters warned about the “exceptionally high” floods along the Ravi, Sutlei and Cenaba rivers. Several districts called in the army to help.

This happens after Pakistani officials said India has warned that it would release the water from large dams up the current, acknowledging that it would flood the parts of the most popular Pakistan province.

In recent weeks, both countries have suffered heavy rainfall, and monsoon rains have killed more than 800 people in Pakistan since June.

The National Catastropics Office (NDMA) warns that people in the affected areas keep away from rivers, drains and lowland zones.

Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said the federal government would fully cooperate with the regional authorities to avoid the risk of floods, especially in Gujarata urban areas, Sialkota and Lahora-second in Pakistan population.

According to Pakistan’s chief meteorologists, Sialkot saw more precipitation than the highest record in the last 49 years. The cars, houses and buildings were left in this.

Many residents of the city are in office, BBC Federal Planning Planning Planning said.

Reuters car, motorcycle and people who go - all partially immersed in the street.Reuters

The city of Sialkot was partially immersed in floods after record rainfall

Rescuers gather in the villages, moving residents and their pet on the boat.

These boats have saved more than 32,000 people trapped in Floodwater, Reuters Agenic reports, citing local officials.

The BBC traveled together with rescuers when they evacuated hundreds of people from one village near Caur, on the border with India.

The Sutlee River is overflowing, immersing the houses and washing the walls that were intended for their protection.

One resident, Nadem Ahmad, told us he was refusing to leave.

For many years he has survived many evacuations and stated that his family simply could not afford to leave again.

He showed us the dozens of cows he kept near his home, and the hay he keeps to feed them. “I am already using their winter supplies,” he said.

Others accepted assistance in extraordinary groups, deciding to stay in the shelter or with friends and relatives living on the Higher Earth.

We joined more than 20 men, women and children huddled on a small boat. One woman pressed her two -month -old lap when the boat passed through the brown currents.

Azadeh Moshiri/BBC Rescuers helps people in a small boat on the flooded coastAzadeh Moshiri/BBC

Emergency teams helped hundreds evacuate from the village near Caur

Azadeh Moshiri/BBC Full Little Boat full of evacuated, sail into the riverAzadeh Moshiri/BBC

BBC has joined more than 20 people, including children, evacuating on one boat

These floods are destroyed for many families in a country where more than 40% of people live below the poverty.

That is why many BBC people have talked over the last two days, they said they were refusing to evacuate.

Rather, they run the risk – to protect as much property and their belongings as possible – even if it means to risk their lives.

About half of the village residents we visited, a community of about 3,000 people located two hours from Lahore, refused to evacuate.

According to the disaster organs in Pakistan, the floods on Wednesday stem from India’s warning that it will release water from large dams up the course.

When India’s reservoir is overflowing, the release of water can cause strong flooding down the current – what happens in Pakistan’s crops, officials say.

India’s warning was a rare moment of public diplomacy between the two countries, which survived their most significant military conflict in May.

Both were destroyed by the floods after extreme monsoon rains.

On Tuesday, the landslide on the way to the popular Hindu shrine Vaishna Davi was killed by at least 30 people in Kashmir, which is measured in the Indian introduction, officials said.

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