ISLAMABAD: Three more people have died because of rains and floods in different parts of the country during the last 24 hours, Bol news channel reported.
According to the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA), this has taken the death toll to 552, whereas 628 people have been injured overall.
According to the preliminary report, 49,778 houses have been damaged because of floods and rains.
Relief activities in the affected areas are also underway and NDMA has dispatched more relief items to Lasbela.
Meanwhile, heavy rain with thunder has started in Gulshan e Hadeed and surrounding areas of Karachi on Saturday evening.
A city that is home to millions is expected to be in the grip of another monsoon system entering today to stay for a week and more falls are expected under the current system, reported BOL News on Saturday.
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As per the Meteorological Department, the new system will hit the city on August 6 and will continue to rain till August 9. However, under the current system, heavy rains are expected across Sindh including Tharparker, Umerkot, Mirpurkhas, Badin, Tando Muhammad khan, Tando Allayar, Hyderabad, Matiari, Thatta, Sujawal, Sanghar, Shaheed Benazirabad, Khairpur, Sukkur, Larkana, Ghotki, Kashmore, Shikarpur, Jacobabad, Dadu, Jamshoro and Qambar Shahdadkot districts.
The Met department has also warned the authorities of the possible urban flooding in the low-lying areas of Karachi.
It is pertinent to mention here that the city has not fully recovered from the shocks of the previous spells of heavy rain so far and yet has to brave another system from today.
Rain with wind and thundershower is expected at isolated places in upper Punjab, upper Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, Sindh, north and east Balochistan and Kashmir during the next twelve hours.
However, partly cloudy and humid weather is likely to prevail in most parts of the country.
Temperature of some major cities recorded this morning:
Islamabad twenty-five degree centigrade, Murree seventeen, Lahore and Peshawar twenty-six, Karachi twenty-eight, Quetta twenty-four, Gilgit twenty and Muzaffarabad twenty-three degree centigrade.
