Battle vs Pakistan floods on as deaths exceed 1,060

By Agence France-Presse

Aug 30, 2022 12:20 am

SUKKUR, Pakistan: Tens of millions of people across Pakistan on Monday were battling the South Asian nation's worst monsoon floods in a decade, with countless homes washed away, vital farmland destroyed and its main river threatening to burst its banks.

Officials say 1,061 people have died since June when the seasonal rains began, but the final toll could be higher as hundreds of villages in the mountainous north have been cut off after flood-swollen rivers washed away roads and bridges.

WHAT A RELIEF Soldiers distribute relief food bags to flood-affected people in the city of Shikarpur in Pakistan’s southern Sindh province on Sunday, Aug. 28, 2022. AFP PHOTO

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