Natural disaster

Switzerland, one of the top tourist countries in the world, is also experiencing the disaster of climate change. It’s so sad that innocent people lost their precious lives after violent thunderstorms and melting snow caused flooding and landslides in two southern cantons of Switzerland, and also affected parts of Italy (“Four dead, two missing after landslides and floods in Switzerland,” June30, Gulf Today website).

According to the report, three of the victims were killed early on Sunday in a landslide in the remote Maggia valley, in the Italian-speaking Swiss canton of Ticino, police said in a statement. A bridge downstream of the disaster area in the Maggia valley was submerged, complicating rescue efforts, they added.

Unusually hot weather and heatwaves have already claimed many lives in different parts of the world. The United States of America and Europe are experiencing hot weather which has broken the record of hundred years. Asian countries are coping with heatwaves, heavy rain and flooding in which dozens of casualties have been reported in recent days.

Climate change is ruining daily life and affecting the world’s economy. Climate change is the biggest threat the world is facing in percent time and it needs to be addressed to protect the world from its disasters.

 Abbas Aslam,

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