Thousands evacuated after ‘exceptionally high’ floods

About 200,000 people were evacuated while the floods destroy parts of the Pakistani Punjab province.

Rescuers carried the residents to safety in boats after disaster authorities warned of “exceptionally high” floods along the Ravi, Sotleg and Chainab rivers. Many areas in the army have been invited to help.

This comes after Pakistani officials said that India has warned that it would release water from the main dams towards the source, causing heavy floods in parts of Pakistan’s most populated province.

Both countries have suffered from severe rains in recent weeks, as monsoon rain has killed more than 800 people in Pakistan since June.

The National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) has warned people in affected areas against moving away from the rivers, banks and low regions.

Prime Minister Shaybaz Sharif said that the federal government will fully cooperate with the regional authorities to avoid the threat of floods, especially in the urban areas of Gojarat, Salkut, and Lahore-the second more than the densely populated city in Pakistan.

Salkot has witnessed the rains in 24 hours more than the highest record in the past 49 years, according to Pakistani meteorologist. This cars, homes and buildings were left immersed.

The Federal Planning Minister told the BBC that many of the city’s residents were cut off.

The rescuers were going from the door to the door in the villages, and the residents and their livestock were transported.

These boats saved more than 32,000 people trapped by flood, according to Reuters reports, quoting local officials.

BBC traveled alongside rescuers while evacuating hundreds of people from one village in the Casore area, on the border with India.

The Sutlig River had overflowed in sunken homes and washing the walls that were aimed at protecting them.

One of the residents, Nadim Ahmed, told us that he refused to leave.

He has passed through multiple evacuation over the years and said that his family simply could not bear the departure again.

Dozens of cows he kept near his home, and stored the straw to feed them. “I am already using their winter supplies,” he said.

Others accepted the help of emergency teams, and they chose to stay in shelters or with friends and relatives living on higher ground.

We joined more than 20 men, women and children who gathered together on a small boat. A two -month -old child was pregnant with her bosom while the boat was mocking brown currents.

These floods destroy many families in a country where more than 40 % of people live below the poverty line.

This is why many people have spoken to BBC in the past two days have said they refused to evacuate.

They prefer to seize their chances – protecting the largest possible amount of their property and property – even if that means risking their lives.

About half of the residents of the village we visited, a community of about 3000 people located two hours from Lahore, refusing to evacuate.

According to the disaster authorities in Pakistan, Wednesday’s floods follow a warning from India that it will launch water from the main dams on the source.

Officials say that India’s cabinets overcame them, can cause water to be released in heavy floods in the direction of the river course – which occurs through areas in Pakistani Punjab.

India’s warning was a rare example of public communication between the two countries, who had the most important military conflict in decades in May.

They both were combined due to the floods after severe seasonal rains.

On Tuesday, officials said that the ground collapse on the road to the famous Hindu shrine, Vishno Devi, killed at least 30 people in the Indian director Kashmir.