Pakistan’s financial capital Karachi cheated by rising rain and floods

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Karachi, Pakistan (Reuters) -Pakistan declared a public holiday in Karachi in Karachi to have admitted to more rain for more rain on Wednesday after the annual monsoon period killed at least seven people and caused widespread floods, said officials.

The monsoon has brought chaos over Pakistan in the past few days, with the number of fatalities from fall floods rose to 377 on Friday.

At least seven people have died in Karachi since the rain in the southern port city began on Tuesday, Abdul Wahid Halepoto, a spokesman for the provincial government. The precipitation reached the level, which in some parts of the city, Pakistan’s largest, could not be observed with more than 20 million inhabitants.

The deaths were caused by drowning, street accidents, breakdown and electric shock construction, said Halepoto.

The authorities appointed educational institutions and offices for closing.

“We expect more intensive rains,” said Anjum Nazir, spokesman for the province’s meteorological department.

The rain on Tuesday was recorded in various parts of the city between 80 mm and 178 mm (7.01 inches), he said.

Nazir said that the area around the airport received 163.5 mm rain, the highest recorded since 1979. In the northeast of the city, around 178 mm of rain was recorded, the highest since the weather station, which was set up there five years ago.

The rain also disturbed electricity, mobile phone services and flights, said officials. Local television recordings showed cars and other vehicles that hovered down the streets and had dipped houses in water.

Karachi Electric said that the sudden downpour had led to a certain disorder of the distribution network. The restoration efforts were with considerable challenges due to water logs, access and general traffic jams in the city, said the spokesman.

He said the KE teams were able to restore the majority of the electricity feeder within eight to 12 hours.

Rescue workers, the police, volunteers and government agencies helped aid measures, said the mayor of the city of Murtaza Wahab of a press conference.

“We use all of our resources to delete roads and restore the supply companies,” he said.

Wahab said the rain overwhelmed the city’s infrastructure and added that the city’s drainage system has the capacity to cope with 40 mm rain, and that everything that exceeds about floods.

In Mumbai, India’s financial capital, there were also severe monsoons, with some parts of the city being soaked in the five days before August 20 with up to 875.1 mm rain.

Many schools in the city were closed on Wednesday for a second day in a row, while the train services were interrupted.

The authorities asked the residents to avoid daring because more rain was predicted.

(Reporting by Ariba Shahid and Asif Shahzad in Islamabad and Shilpa Jamkhandikar in Mumbai; writing by Asif Shahzad; Editor of Kate Mayberry and Alex Richardson)