Since July, a total of at least 235 people have been killed and 450 others were injured by floods.[1] Among them were five children in Upper Dir District, who had been returning home from school, before they were swept away and eventually drowned by flooding.[35] 326,897 houses were damaged due to floods and landslides, and 7,742 cattle died from collapsing sheds.[3] In Swat District, a newly built hotel had collapsed due to excessive flooding.[36] The southwestern part of the province was previously affected by an earthquake in neighbouring Afghanistan two months earlier.