Pakistan floods: 12 more dead in Baluchistan, Gilgit Baltistan area

Friday’s statement by the National Disaster Management Authority says seven of the deaths were reported in flood-hit areas in the southwestern Baluchistan province while three people died in the eastern Punjab province. Flood waters also killed two people in the northern Gilgit Baltistan region.

It says 194,137 people in the district of Layyah and other regions in the eastern Punjab province have been affected.

Meanwhile, the situation was returning to normalcy in the northern city of Chitral, where floods earlier this week killed three people and destroyed roads and bridges.