Pakistan: “Fighting” to save the power plant after the deadly floods, the country

The authorities in the Pakistanas officials stated today, who have taken measures such as the creation of an embankment in front of it.

Torrential monsoon rains and melting glaciers in northern Pakistan caused widespread flooding that affected 33 million peopleand cost the lives of nearly 1,400, while sweeping away houses, roads, railway lines, bridges, leaving behind dead animals and damaged crops. The damages they caused are estimated at 30 billion dollars.

The Pakistani government and UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres blame climate change for the extreme weather that has led to the floods, which have submerged nearly a third of the country of 220 million people.

The power station in Dadu district in southern Sindh province, one of the worst affected areas, supplies electricity to six provincial districts.

The army was fighting yesterday, Sunday, to strengthen the embankment that has been created in front of the station.

“All preventive measures have already been taken to save the network in the event of a flood,” senior local official Syed Murtaza Ali Shah told Reuters today, as reported by the Athens News Agency.

The statement follows orders by Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, broadcast by Pakistan’s public radio station, to ensure that the 500 kV station is not flooded.

UN agencies have begun to assess Pakistan’s post-disaster reconstruction needs. floods.

In July and August, Pakistan received 391 mm of rain, or almost 190% more rain than the 30-year average.

Sindh province received 466% more rain than average and all the floodwaters pass through Dadu, a region of 1.5 million people, because of its location.