Pakistan defends flood response after over 270 people killed in northwestern district
Source: AP
By MUHAMMAD SAJJAD and RIAZ KHAN
Updated 2:43 PM CDT, August 17, 2025
BUNER, Pakistan (AP) — Rescuers recovered dozens more bodies from the rubble of collapsed homes in a northwestern district of Pakistan, bringing the death toll to at least 274, as authorities defended their response to the flooding and said they did not need any foreign help at this point.
Heavy rains and flooding also killed dozens of people in neighboring Kashmir.
Mohammad Suhail, a spokesman for Pakistan’s emergency service, said 54 bodies were found in Buner, a mountainous area in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, where torrential rains and cloudbursts triggered massive flooding on Friday.
Suhail said villagers remain missing, and search efforts are focused on areas where homes were flattened by torrents of water that swept down from the mountains, carrying boulders that smashed into houses like explosions.
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