ISLAMABAD: Over 114 people are dead, over 50 missing and hundreds are displaced by the worst-ever cyclone and subsequent flash floods in the country’s coastal areas and 14 other districts, National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) Chairman Lt-Gen Muhammad Farooq Khan said.

In a press briefing on Friday, he said that the official death toll was 114, but according to unofficial estimates, over 260 people had died in the cyclone and flood-hit areas, adding that 90 people had died in Sindh and 14 in Balochistan.

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