Brutal Monsoon Season Kills at Least 1,860 in India and Pakistan

A deadly monsoon season has claimed at least 1,860 lives in India and Pakistan, with flash floods, landslides and inundated cities exposing the region’s growing vulnerability to climate-related disasters.

As the monsoon continues, heavy rains have left scenes of devastation across the subcontinent. A sudden downpour in the hilly Indian state of Uttarakhand washed away an entire village this month, while a cloudburst killed around 60 people in Jammu and Kashmir. Life in Mumbai, India’s financial hub, came to a standstill this week as roads turned into canals, and in Pakistan, the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province saw 180 deaths in a day.