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Record-Breaking Rainfall Causes Deadly Floods in Pakistan
Massive rainfall has caused the deadliest floods in Pakistan since 1929. Floodwaters that have devastated Pakistan for five weeks headed to the Arabian Sea on Tuesday after swallowing two final towns, but the challenges of delivering emergency aid to 8 million people remained.
- Sept. 3: A Pakistani girl reacts as she loses her juice packs during a scramble for relief goods at a camp for people displaced by floods in Punjab province. Flood victims say they have received little government help, and most assistance has come to them from private charities. The International Committee of the Red Cross warned that the survivors' anger was beginning to hamper those aid efforts.read moreAPShare
- Aug. 31: Pakistani children who survives heavy flooding are covered with flies as they live in miserable conditions at a roadside in Nowshera near Pesharwar, Pakistan. Floodwaters that have devastated Pakistan for five weeks headed to the Arabian Sea on Tuesday after swallowing two final towns, but the challenges of delivering emergency aid to 8 million people remained.read moreAPShare
- Aug 31: Children who survive floods live in a tent in a camp setup for displaced people in Nowshera near Peshawar, Pakistan. Floodwaters that have devastated Pakistan for five weeks headed to the Arabian Sea on Tuesday after swallowing two final towns, but the challenges of delivering emergency aid to 8 million people remained.read moreAPShare
- Aug. 31: Boys who survive floods take bath at a camp setup for displaced people in Nowshera near Peshawar, Pakistan. Floodwaters that have devastated Pakistan for five weeks headed to the Arabian Sea on Tuesday after swallowing two final towns, but the challenges of delivering emergency aid to 8 million people remained.read moreAPShare
- Aug. 31: A Pakistani flood survivor carries meal at a camp setup for displaced people in Karachi, Pakistan. Floodwaters that have devastated Pakistan for five weeks headed to the Arabian Sea on Tuesday after swallowing two final towns, but the challenges of delivering emergency aid to 8 million people remained.read moreAPShare
- Aug. 26: Pakistani villagers sit over their houses collapsed by floods in Nowshera, Pakistan. Pakistani officials urged anyone left in three southern towns Thursday to evacuate immediately as floodwaters broke through a levee, endangering areas previously untouched by the country's almost month-long disaster.read moreAPShare
- Aug. 26: A Pakistani girl washes linens buried in debris of her house collapsed by heavy floods in Nowshera, Pakistan. Pakistani officials urged anyone left in three southern towns Thursday to evacuate immediately as floodwaters broke through a levee, endangering areas previously untouched by the country's almost month-long disaster.read moreAPShare
- Aug. 25: Pakistan villagers are rescued by volunteers from the heavily flooded area of Garhi Khairo, in southern Pakistan on Wednesday. Pakistan will have to demonstrate it can spend relief funds transparently and well if it wants more help in rebuilding after its massive floods, the U.S. aid chief said, as officials in the northwest vowed Wednesday to stop banned Islamist groups from helping victims.read moreAPShare
- Aug. 24: Pakistani residents stand on their property which is surrounded by flood waters, near Thul in Sindh province, southern Pakistan. Floods have isolated about 800,000 people in Pakistan who are now only reachable by air and aid workers need at least 40 more helicopters to ferry lifesaving aid to the increasingly desperate people, the United Nations said.read moreAPShare
- August 16: Pakistani flood victims jostle to get relief food distributed by volunteers in Shekarpur, Pakistan. Angry flood survivors in Pakistan blocked a highway to protest slow delivery of aid and heavy rain lashed makeshift housing Monday as a forecast of more flooding increased the urgency of the massive international relief effort.read moreAPShare
- August 9: Pakistani flood-affected children scuffle for food relief distributed by people in Nowshera in northwest Pakistan. The number of people suffering from the massive floods in Pakistan exceeds 13 million more than the combined total of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, the 2005 Kashmir earthquake and the 2010 Haiti earthquake, the United Nations said Monday.read moreAPShare
- August 16: Angry flood survivors gesture as they block a highway demanding food, shelter and water in Sukkar, Pakistan. They protested slow delivery of aid and heavy rain lashed makeshift housing Monday as a forecast of more flooding increased the urgency of the massive international relief effort.read moreAPShare
- August 12: Flood affected children help a woman to get water in a camp in Nowshera, Pakistan. Pakistani flood survivors already short on food and water began the fasting month of Ramadan on Thursday, a normally festive, social time marked this year by misery and fears of an uncertain future.read moreAPShare
- August 11: A villager is rescued by a Pakistan's Navy helicopter from flooded area of Ghaus Pur near Sukkur, in Pakistan's Sindh province. Pakistan's President Asif Ali Zardari returned home to a storm of criticism after visiting Europe as his country was gripped by the worst floods in its history. His arrival Tuesday came as thousands of people fled a major city in central Pakistan as rivers threatened to submerge the area.read moreAPShare
- August 1: A Pakistani woman reacts to see the destruction of her house due to flooding in Nowshera, Pakistan on Sunday. The death toll from massive floods in northwestern Pakistan rose to 1,100 Sunday as rescue workers struggled to save more than 27,000 people still trapped by the raging water.read moreAPShare
- July 30: People stand at a bank of overflowing steam in Mingora, the capital of Swat valley in Pakistan on Friday. The death toll in three days of flooding in Pakistan reached more than 300 on Friday, rescue and government officials said, as rains bloated rivers, submerged villages, and triggered landslides.read moreAPShare
- July 30: An aerial view shows Nowshera city submerged in floodwater caused by heavy monsoon rains in Pakistan on Friday. Boats and helicopters struggled to reach hundreds of thousands of villagers cut off by floods in northwest Pakistan on Friday as the government said it was the deadliest such disaster to hit the region since 1929.read moreAPShare
- July 30: People with belongings migrate as their houses were flooded following heavy monsoon rains in Dera Ismail Khan, Pakistan on Friday. The death toll in three days of flooding in Pakistan reached at least 313 on Friday, rescue and government officials said, as rains bloated rivers, submerged villages, and triggered landslides.read moreAPShare
- July 30: An aerial view shows houses are submerged in water due to heavy flooding in Dera Ismail Khan, Pakistan on Friday. The death toll in three days of flooding in Pakistan reached over 300 on Friday, rescue and government officials said, as rains bloated rivers, submerged villages, and triggered landslides.read moreAPShare
- July 30: Stranded Pakistani villagers wait for rescue helicopters stranded in their houses in Nowshera, Pakistan on Friday. Boats and helicopters struggled to reach hundreds of thousands of villagers cut off by floods in northwest Pakistan on Friday as the government said it was the deadliest such disaster to hit the region since 1929.read moreAPShare
- July 29: Pakistani villagers gather beside their collapse house caused by heave monsoon rainfall on the outskirts of Dera Ismail Khan, Pakistan on Thursday. Rivers burst their banks during monsoon rains, washing away streets, battering a dam and killing at least 60 people in the most severe floods in decades in northwest Pakistan, officials said Thursday. Hundreds of thousands more were stranded as rescue workers struggled to reach far-flung villages.read moreAPShare
- July 29: In this image released by the Pakistan Inter Services Public Relations Department, people rush for a helicopter ride as they are evacuated from a village flooded by monsoon rains in Charsadda near Peshawar, Pakistan on Thursday. Dozens of people were killed by heavy rains which caused flooding.read moreAPShare
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Record-Breaking Rainfall Causes Deadly Floods in Pakistan
Massive rainfall has caused the deadliest floods in Pakistan since 1929. Floodwaters that have devastated Pakistan for five weeks headed to the Arabian Sea on Tuesday after swallowing two final towns, but the challenges of delivering emergency aid to 8 million people remained.
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