Landslides caused yesterday, Monday, in the north Pakistan After torrential rains of summer monks, costing life to 3 people, whose vehicles were struck by mud, according to local authorities, who clarified that businesses were continuing to rescue 15 trapped missing.

Many victims were tourists from other parts of Pakistan who visited Gilgit-Balistan, a province known for its lakes and valleys when a landslide on a mountainous area.

“Three corpses were found, and over 15 people are still missing,” Abdul Hamid, a police officer in the Diamers area, said today in Gilgit-Balistan.

He noted that the operation to rescue them, which began yesterday, “resumed today at 6am” to release more than 10 carriage from the mud.

“The rescuers also removed four injured, one of whom is in critical condition,” Fajulah Farak, the spokesman for the province authorities, said, confirming the report.

“Hundreds of tourists took care, the residents of their neighboring villages provided temporary accommodation and help,” he added.

The floods in the province also caused damage to 50 houses, 4 bridges, a hotel, a school and excluded the main roads.

The summer monsoons, in which 70% of the annual rain in South Asia falls between June and September, are vital to the livelihoods of millions of farmers in an area of about 2 billion inhabitants.

However, heavy rainfall and floods have caused the deaths of 221 people from the beginning of summer monsoon in late June, according to authorities.

On Friday more than 50 people died in a 24 -hour period due to rains. Most of the victims were either killed by the collapse of the roof or walls of their home, or were dragged by sudden flood waters, or by electric shock.

The National Meteorological Service predicts that the risk of rains and a possible sudden rise of water level remains increased in provinces in the north and eastern part of the country, and there is also a risk of flooding and landslides.

At the end of June, at least 13 Pakistani tourists had been dragged by the water of sudden floods in another province of northern Pakistan.

The country is also struggling to recover from the devastating floods of 2022, which hit almost one -third of Pakistan and over 33 million people. About 1,700 people then lost their lives and much of the crops were lost.

The country is among the most vulnerable to the consequences of climate change, and its 255 million inhabitants are increasingly more frequent.