Days of heavy rain swelled three transboundary rivers in Punjab, swelling them to exceptionally high levels and affecting more than 2,300 villages. Relief authorities evacuated 481,000 people and 405,000 livestock, and reported that over 1.5 million people have been affected, including in Lahore. More than 800 boats and about 1,300 rescue personnel carried out the province's largest-ever rescue operation, and authorities set up over 500 relief camps to shelter families and animals. The latest monsoon spell killed 30 people, with hundreds more killed across an unusually heavy season since June. Separate mid-August landslides killed over 400 in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
Three transboundary rivers that cut through Punjab province, which borders India, have swollen to exceptionally high levels, affecting more than 2,300 villages. Nabeel Javed, the head of the Punjab government's relief services, said on Saturday that 481,000 people stranded by the floods had been evacuated, along with 405,000 livestock. Overall, more than 1.5 million people have been affected by the flooding, including in Lahore, the provincial capital and the country's second-largest city.
He said more than 800 boats and some 1,300 rescue personnel were involved in evacuating families from affected areas, mostly located in rural areas near the banks of the three rivers. The latest spell of monsoon flooding since the start of the week has killed 30 people, he said, with hundreds left dead throughout the heavier-than-usual season that began in June.
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