Residents walk next to damaged cars stuck to an electric pole following flash flooding due to heavy rains in a neighbourhood of Mingora, the main town of Swat Valley, northwestern Pakistan, on August 15, 2025.
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Rescuers in northwest Pakistan pulled 63 more bodies overnight from homes flattened by landslides and flash floods, raising the death toll from rain-related incidents to at least 220, officials said Saturday (August 16, 2025).
Hundreds of rescue workers are still searching for survivors in Buner, a mountainous district in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province where torrential rains and cloudbursts triggered massive flooding on Friday (August 15), said Mohammad Suhail, a spokesman for the emergency services. Dozens of homes were swept away.
A firefighting department vehicle submerged in a floodwater following flash flooding due to heavy rains in the neighbourhood of Mingora, the main town of Swat Valley, northwestern Pakistan, on August 15, 2025.
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According to the provincial disaster management authority, at least 351 people have died in rain-related incidents this week across Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and the northern region of Gilgit-Baltistan.
Such cloudbursts are increasingly common in India’s Himalayan regions and Pakistan’s northern areas, and experts have said climate change is a contributing factor.
Published – August 16, 2025 11:29 am IST
