{"id":73632,"date":"2025-08-25T23:12:16","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T14:12:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2025\/aug\/25\/deadly-floods-pakistan-mingora-flood-waters"},"modified":"2025-08-25T23:12:16","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T14:12:16","slug":"it-happened-in-seconds-residents-count-the-cost-of-deadly-floods-that-have-left-pakistan-in-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=73632","title":{"rendered":"\u2018It happened in seconds\u2019: residents count the cost of deadly floods that have left Pakistan in crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the country\u2019s north, people recall the terror of soaring flood waters that killed hundreds, and blame authorities for poor planning<\/p>\n<p>As flood waters surged through the streets and submerged the houses, Bilawal Jamshed rushed to the rooftop with his family, terrified the water would swallow everyone in Mingora, Swat, in Pakistan\u2019s northern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEverything happened in seconds, as if a dam had burst and water rushed toward us. We were lucky it was morning and we could escape to the rooftops. Imagine if it had happened at night,\u201d says Jamshed, 36, while walking through streets still filled with foul-smelling sludge, as residents and volunteers struggle to clean up more than a week after the devastating floods.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2025\/aug\/25\/deadly-floods-pakistan-mingora-flood-waters\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the country\u2019s north, people recall the terror of soaring flood waters that killed hundreds, and blame authorities for poor planningAs flood waters surged through the streets and submerged the houses, Bilawal Jamshed rushed to the rooftop with his fa&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4904,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2331,65,455,313,59,60,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climate-crisis","category-environment","category-extreme-weather","category-flooding","category-global-development","category-pakistan","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4904"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73632"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73632\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73633,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73632\/revisions\/73633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}