QUETTA, Aug 18: Recent torrential rains and floods affected 420,337 people on 1,105,063 acres in 16 districts in Balochistan, causing 46 deaths, destruction of 29,045 houses and loss of 19,454 cattle and crops over 420,369 acres.

A report released by the provincial government on Monday stated that the heavy rains after seven years of severe drought during the monsoon season resulted in large-scale floods, which affected Jaffarabad, Nasirabad, Jhal Magsi, Bolan, Dera Bugti, Sibi, Ziarat, Loralai, Killi Saifullah, Khuzdar, Awaran, Lasbela, Khuzdar, Mastung, Kalat, Zhob and Kharan districts.

Jaffarabad, Nasirabad, Bolan, Jhal Magsi and Lasbela were severely affected, it said.

It said the provincial government through its relief commissionerate distributed Rs12 million, 2,780 tents, 975 blankets, 100 packets of edibles and 140 cartons of anti-malaria and anti-venom vaccines among the affected people.

The federal government supplied 990 tents, 5,000 blankets, 140 cartons of medicines and six truckloads of food.

The communications and works department assessed the damage at Rs431.949 billion, irrigation department, Rs458 million and public health engineering, Rs7.139 billion.