Mourners and locals offer funeral prayers for victims who died in incidents related to flash floods and monsoon rains in Salarzai Tehsil of Pakistan's Bajaur district on August 15, 2025. Heavy monsoon rains triggered landslides and flash floods across northern Pakistan, killing at least 50 people in the last 24 hours, disaster authorities said August 15. (Photo by AFP)
August 15, 2025
Pakistan monsoon death toll tops 160 in 24 hours — disaster agency
BAJAUR, Pakistan (AFP) — The death toll from heavy monsoon rains that have triggered landslides and flash floods across northern Pakistan has risen to at least 164 people in the last 24 hours, the disaster authority said Friday.
The majority of the deaths, 150, were recorded in mountainous Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, according to the National Disaster Management Authority.
Nine more people were killed in Pakistan-administered Kashmir, while five died in the northern Gilgit-Baltistan region, it said.
