QUETTA, Pakistan—At least 77 people, including women and children, have died in rain-related incidents across Pakistan during the past three weeks, officials said Wednesday.
The monsoon rains also damaged homes, roads, bridges, and power stations across the country since June 14, Pakistan’s minister for climate change Sherry Rehman told a news conference in the capital, Islamabad.
Rehman said 39 of the 77 people died in rain-related incidents just in Baluchistan since last month.
“This is a national disaster,” Rehman said about the rain-related casualties.
TV footage showed some vehicles being swept away by the deluges of floods in Baluchistan.
Heavy rain also lashed Islamabad and the eastern Punjab province….