"Biblical level flood": More than 900 dead in floods in Pakistan
Among the dead were 326 children.
July was Pakistan's wettest month in three decades, with 133% more than the 30-year average rainfall
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25/08/2022
Thursday, August 25, 2022, 10:03 a.m. Updated: 11:04 a.m.
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At least 903 people have been killed so far this summer in deadly floods in Pakistan following heavy rains.
The country is in the midst of its eighth monsoon wave so far this season, the climate change minister told CNN, adding that Pakistan needed international assistance.
Thousands were left without shelter or food due to the "humanitarian disaster", said Shari Rahman.
"The power lines were also cut," she added.
Rahman tweeted that 326 children were among the dead, and that the government is using all its resources to help the victims.
Humanitarian aid reaches the residents of Balochistan (Photo: Reuters)
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Since mid-June, 2.3 million people in Pakistan have been affected by monsoon rains and heavy flooding, according to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA). At least 95,350 homes have been destroyed, according to the UN.
Sindhi province and Balochistan province in the country's southwest were the worst hit "in terms of infrastructure and human crime," OCHA said in a press statement on Tuesday.
More than 504,000 farm animals were killed in the floods, 3,000 km of roads and 129 bridges were destroyed, which is now an obstacle to the delivery of aid and food to the areas in need. The heavy rains and floods are expected to continue in the country, and schools in Balochistan and Sindhi were closed for the weekend China said yesterday that it will provide humanitarian aid to Pakistan
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according to a tweet from the Chinese embassy in Pakistan.The supplies are to include 25,000 tents and $300,000 in cash to areas hit hard by the floods.
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A rickshaw drowns in the water in the city of Hyderabad (Photo: Reuters)
Floods in the city of Hyderabad (Photo: Reuters)
Pakistan witnesses monsoon rains every year, but this summer the rains are especially heavy, Rahman told CNN.
No one was prepared for the 400 mm of rain that fell over a few hours in the country's largest city, Karachi, she added. "No city is built or prepared or climate-proofed to such a degree that it can handle this amount of water in such a short time." , she said. "It's a flood on a biblical level."
July was Pakistan's wettest month in three decades, with 133 percent more than the average rainfall over the past 30 years, according to the National Disaster Management Authority.
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