Floodwaters swept away a vehicle carrying 10 members of a family in Hassan Abdal on Wednesday morning, officials said.  Rescue 1122 workers rescued five persons onboard the vehicle and transferred them to hospital for medical aid. “A search operation has been underway to trace other members of the family carried away by the flooding rainwater drain,” officials said.  A team of Rescue 1122 divers searching for four women and a child carried away by the floodwater. 

A car carrying a father and daughter was swept away by flood in Islamabad’s DHA Phase 5 on July 22, after heavy monsoon rainfall.  According to eyewitnesses, the vehicle was caught in a sudden surge of water, leaving father and daughter unable to escape.  Since the onset of the monsoon season, a total of 266 people have been died and 628 have been injured across Pakistan in rain and flooding.

Credit: Independent News Pakistan (INP)