Noor Muhammad had a lengthy phone conversation with his mother two days prior to his wedding, just hours before she and twenty-three other family members were killed in Pakistan’s terrible floods.
He remarked, “I cannot explain how happy she was,” as he stood beside the debris of his family’s spacious 36-room home in Qadir Nagar hamlet, which was situated on the bank of a floodwater channel.
With more than 200 fatalities from floods in the northwest since August 15, the community in the mountainous Buner district has been the nation’s worst impacted by recent heavy rains.
Islamabad, the capital, is three and a half hours’ journey from Buner.
