ISLAMABAD: The National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) on Thursday said flood-related death toll in Punjab mainly in Sialkot district had increased to 264.

Sialkot has become the worst hit district from the floods with 32 deaths, followed by district Haveli of AJK with 29 deaths.

In Lahore 27 persons perished while 68 others injured in flood related incidents.

As information starts to pour in from the remote and isolated parts of the country, the latest NDMA figure shows that 582 houses have been damaged in Gilgit-Baltistan (GB).

Furthermore, 2,454 houses were damaged in AJK and 1,722 in Punjab.

In district Chinot alone, 843 houses were damaged by the floods.

The districts with high number of deaths due to floods includes 17 in Kasur, 15 in Narowal,13 each in Jhelum and Rawalpindi, 12 in Faisalabad, eight in Okara, seven in Gujaranwala and six in Gujrat.

Meanwhile, after Haveli, the districts Sudhnoti and Kotli of AJK have suffered the most in recent floods, with death counts at 14 and eight respectively, and five persons died in Rawalakot.

The flash floods also damaged 27 water mills in AJK, with 21 in Neelum district, followed by five in Hattian and one in Muzafarabad.

Published in Dawn, September 12th, 2014