Widespread flooding in Punjab province has caused massive damage to agriculture, wiping out key crops and threatening food security across Pakistan.

At least 21 rain-related deaths have been reported across Pakistan in the past 24 hours, according to the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) on Friday.

Villagers in Pakistan’s eastern Kasur district are being forced to flee their homes for the second time this year — first from cross-border fighting, and now from devastating floods.

A newly formed 7-kilometer (4-mile) lake in northern Pakistan, created by a massive mountain mudslide, is threatening to burst and trigger potentially “catastrophic” floods downstream, authorities warned Saturday.

More than 300 people have been killed in Pakistan as heavy monsoon rains and flooding continue to wreak havoc across the country, local officials said Saturday.

Nearly 200 people have died in north-west Pakistan due to torrential rains over the past 24 hours, with severe weather also causing the crash of a rescue helicopter, local officials reported on August 15. Cloudbursts and flash floods have been widespread in the region.

The death toll from the heavy monsoon rains and flash floods that have struck Pakistan since June 26 has climbed to 291, with 698 people reported injured.

A state of emergency has been declared in several districts of Punjab province, Pakistan, following catastrophic flooding caused by heavy rains that have claimed more than 60 lives in the past 24 hours, according to rescue officials and local authorities.