SEHWAN, Pakistan: Eighteen more people have died in Pakistan, officials said on Wednesday, taking the death toll to 1,343 in unprecedented floods that have submerged more than a third of the South Asian nation, leaving hundreds of thousands People have become homeless.
The disaster attributed to climate change affected 33 million of the 220 million population, which officials estimate caused at least $10 billion in damage.
Many of the affected are from the southern province of Sindh, where Pakistan’s largest freshwater lake is dangerously close to breaching its shores, even after breaching in an operation that displaced 100,000 people. was done.
National disaster officials said eight children were among those killed in the last 24 hours. Record monsoon rains and melting glaciers caused floods in the northern mountains of Pakistan.
A top official of the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) has warned that the situation could worsen with the possibility of more rain in the coming months.
already, World Health Organization The U.S. has said that more than 6.4 million people in flood-prone areas are in need of humanitarian aid.
The raging waters have washed away 1.6 million homes, 5,735 kilometers (3,564 mi) of roads, railways, 246 bridges, telecommunications systems, 750,000 livestock, and over 2 million acres (809,370 ha) of farmland.
The disaster attributed to climate change affected 33 million of the 220 million population, which officials estimate caused at least $10 billion in damage.
Many of the affected are from the southern province of Sindh, where Pakistan’s largest freshwater lake is dangerously close to breaching its shores, even after breaching in an operation that displaced 100,000 people. was done.
National disaster officials said eight children were among those killed in the last 24 hours. Record monsoon rains and melting glaciers caused floods in the northern mountains of Pakistan.
A top official of the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) has warned that the situation could worsen with the possibility of more rain in the coming months.
already, World Health Organization The U.S. has said that more than 6.4 million people in flood-prone areas are in need of humanitarian aid.
The raging waters have washed away 1.6 million homes, 5,735 kilometers (3,564 mi) of roads, railways, 246 bridges, telecommunications systems, 750,000 livestock, and over 2 million acres (809,370 ha) of farmland.