Death Toll Mounts In Afghanistan, Pakistan As Heavy Rains Exacerbate Flash Flooding

Flash flooding hits Pakistan's Swat Valley as torrential rains continued to fall.

Pakistan and Afghanistan are both struggling with rising rivers and flash flooding that killed nearly 140 people in four days.

 

Pakistani fishermen gather under a damaged structure near a jetty following heavy rainfall in Gwadar, Balochistan Province, on April 18. 

Rain was falling at nearly twice the historical average rate for April.

A man salvages his personal belongings after flooding struck his home in the Charsadda district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province on April 17.

 

A displaced family waits for assistance at a makeshift camp after fleeing from their flooded homes.

 

In the Charsadda district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, residents salvage their personal belongings by placing them on cots above mud left over from the floodwaters.

Residents stand near the floodwaters outside their homes.

Floodwaters were also still high in Peshawar on April 15 after it endured three days of torrential rain and lightning strikes that killed scores of people.

In Afghanistan, people gathered to attend funeral prayers for the victims of flash floods in Shahkoti village in the Lal Pur district of Nangarhar Province on April 15.

Some 70 people died and 56 were injured in heavy rains and flooding nationwide, the National Disaster Management Authority said on April 18.

People retrieve their belongings after heavy rains destroyed homes in the Momand-Dara district of Afghanistan's Nangarhar Province.

 

A man in Kandahar removes debris from his home following heavy rains and flash flooding.

Afghanistan has been parched by an unusually dry winter that desiccated the earth, exacerbating flash flooding caused by spring downpours in multiple provinces.