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Villagers search for their belongings in their destroyed huts in Jafarabad district
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FIDA HUSSAIN / AFP
Tracks and roads are flooded, bridges destroyed: Due to unusually heavy rainfall, many schoolchildren in Pakistan have to stay at home.
Authorities on Monday ordered all schools in the southwestern Balochistan province to be closed for a week.
"We expect more rain and flooding in the coming days," said a spokesman for the provincial authority.
Baluchistan is currently cut off from the rest of the country because important access routes are under water or destroyed in the course of the flood disaster.
Train traffic has also been paralyzed in the neighboring province of Sindh.
Meanwhile, the military is helping to get people out of their flooded villages by boat and helicopter.
Pakistan has been hit by unusually heavy rainfall since mid-June.
Around 800 people have already lost their lives as a result of the water masses.
More than 300,000 people also had to be accommodated according to the National Disaster Management Agency.
Because natural disasters such as droughts, heat waves and floods are on the rise in Pakistan, Pakistan's Climate Protection Minister Sherry Rehman has already warned of an "existential crisis" in her country.
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