1,527 individuals were also injured


Islamabad: The death toll from torrential monsoon rains and floods since the onset of the rainy season across the country has reached 1061.
According to National Disaster Management Authority, 28 people had died in the previous 24 hours, and 1,527 individuals were also injured in rains and flood-related incidents.
However, authorities were still trying to reach cut-off villages in the mountainous north.
According to NDMA, the highest number of deaths were 349 in Sindh, 242 in Balochistan, 242 in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, 168 in Punjab.
Overall, 470 men, 210 women, and 359 children lost their lives.
The NDMA issued a situation report that accounted overall life, property, and infrastructure losses caused by the heavy rains lashing out various parts of the country.
This year's monsoon flooding has affected more than 33 million people -- one in seven Pakistanis -- destroying or badly damaging more than 3457 kilometers (about 2,200 miles) of roads, 157 bridges, 170 shops, and 949,858 houses damaged due to the heavy rains in various districts of all the provinces, including Gilgit Baltistan and Azad Jammu and Kashmir.
The rains also caused losses of more than 719,000 livestock animals.
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