DERA MURAD JAMALI: Naseerabad: In Langeau Mohalla, Ward No. 25 of Dera Murad Jamali, Naseerabad, the roof of a house collapsed due to heavy rain, killing four members of the same family and injuring three others.
The deceased include a mother and her three children. The father and two more children sustained injuries.
All nine family members were sleeping in a single room when the roof suddenly gave way.
Local residents rushed to the scene, pulled the bodies and injured from under the rubble, and immediately shifted the wounded to Civil Hospital Dera Murad Jamali for treatment.
Over the past decade, Balochistan has witnessed repeated rain-related disasters, primarily flash floods and roof collapses caused by heavy monsoon rains.
The province, Pakistan’s driest region, has faced increasingly erratic and intense rainfall patterns, often linked to climate change.
These events have frequently devastated mud-brick homes, leading to tragic loss of life, especially among families sleeping in single rooms during heavy downpours.
Notable incidents include severe flooding in 2015 that damaged infrastructure in Zhob, flash floods in 2019 displacing hundreds in Lasbela, and the catastrophic 2022 monsoon season when unprecedented rainfall killed over 336 people in the province, displaced more than 600,000, and destroyed or damaged hundreds of thousands of houses along with vast agricultural land and livestock.
Roof collapses have remained a recurring cause of fatalities, with multiple incidents reported in 2024 and 2025, including several deaths from house and mine collapses during heavy rains.
Poor infrastructure, weak construction materials, and lack of early warning systems have consistently worsened the impact of these natural events.
