Pakistan Flood Death Toll Reaches 670, SAR Operation Still Continues

Two cars were caught on an electric pole after a major flood hit the northwestern Pakistani city of Mingora on August 15, 2025. (MSN/AP)

JAKARTA - The massive floods that hit the northwesternern Pakistan province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa have resulted in a surge in the death toll, which has totaled 670 people, while rescue operations are continuing.

Head of the National Disaster Management Agency (NDMA), Lt. Gen. Inam Haider, at a press conference in Islam on Monday, said that about 1,000 people were injured in accidents related to rain and flooding across the country since June 26.

Inam said authorities were continuing to clean roads and restore electricity in flood-hit districts by deploying troops assisted by local volunteers.

Meanwhile, heavy rains since Friday (15/8) have continued to flush Peshawar, the provincial capital, and the neighboring Swabi and Noshehra districts, while new rainy seasons lurk in the flooded districts of Buner, Shat, Shangla, and Mansehra. In Harnai district, Blochistan province, heavy rains claimed the lives of two girls.

Faraz Mughal, spokesman for the Khyber government, Pakhtunkhwa, told reporters that at least 200 people were declared missing, and it was feared that the death toll would increase.

Most of those missing came from the worst-affected Buner district, with 220 deaths confirmed since Friday.

"The situation here is very scary. There is nothing left except piles of debris and giant stones wasted by the flood," Fazal Maabood, an Al-Khidmat Foundation official, one of the country's largest aid and rescue agencies, told Anadolu from the Buner district.

He said rescue teams and volunteers were trying to find missing people, who were believed to be trapped under the rubble, as rain and mountain terrain hampered rescue efforts.

Together with NDMA and the Al-Khidmat Foundation, several aid agencies have sent aid to affected areas.