Daily Update of Torrential Rain and Flood situation across the country – August 06, 2010 at 9:30 pm

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Daily Assessment Updates on Torrential Rain and Flood Situation in Pakistan

August 6th, 2010

Overview:

Country-wide torrential rains caused unprecedented and outrageous floods throughout Pakistan except in Sindh where minor damages are reported. The current spate of torrential rains and flash floods started on 21st July 2010. Initially it played havoc in eastern parts of Baluchistan which includes: Barkhan, Kohlu, Sibi, Jafferabad and Naseerabad districts. The relief operations in the affected areas of Baluchistan were not over yet, when floods struck district Rajanpur, Layya and Gujranwala in Punjab. Subsequently, the tide turned towards Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KPK) and Azad Jammu & Kashmir and engulfed various small and large towns in these areas. The most affected areas in KPK are: Shangla, Swat, Minghora, Mansehra, Charsadda, Noshehra towns, where routine life has come to a complete halt and affected communities in most parts of KPK are still waiting for rescue and relief.

Initial reports reveals that around 4 million people have been affected by worst floods in the country and death toll have rose to 1600 people. It is feared that the number of death will soar further once the communication links are re-established. The government authorities, armed forces and humanitarian organizations, particularly NGOs, have started a major rescue effort to reach out to affected communities to provide them humanitarian assistance during their distress movements.

In order to facilitate coordinated humanitarian response in the affected areas and enable humanitarian organizations to have substantial planning for their humanitarian activities, SPO, with the support of its partner organizations, initiated rapid assessments in the affected areas and share it with relevant stakeholders in the form of daily update. Date-wise situational update and rapid assessments of damages caused by torrential rains and flood are available on SPO website and can be accessed on URL http://www.spopk.org.

Daily update for 6th August 2010, providing details of SPO’s response to the emergency situation and relief activities being carried out for mitigation of the miseries of affected communities across the country, is provided below:

SPO intervention in Flood affected areas till august 06, 2010

Keeping in view the essential needs of displaced communities, SPO teams besides coordination of humanitarian efforts at Provincial levels in Baluchistan -Quetta, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa – Peshawar and AJK – Muzafarabad, have initiated various humanitarian interventions. Hither to following activities have been carried out and reported:

Baluchistan Province:

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province:

Punjab Province:

Rapid Assessments:

Azad Jammu and Kashmir:

Neelum

SPO Field Team in Neelum  have carried out rapid assessment of the recent losses/damages caused due to torrential rains and flood in Neelum which is provided below:

SPO Regional teams are working with relevant stakeholders at regional level for relief and mitigation of miseries of the affected communities and coordinating relief operation in the areas. For further details or any other relevant information, you may contact SPO staff at following locations:

Islamabad:

Azad Jammu & Kashmir:

Quetta:

Multan:

D.I.Khan:

Peshawar: