[net-gold] DISASTERS: FLOODS : COUNTRIES: AFGHANISTAN, PAKISTAN: Monsoon Rains in Pakistan, Afghanistan Kill More than 800
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- Date: Sat, 31 Jul 2010 11:41:08 -0400 (EDT)
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DISASTERS: FLOODS :
COUNTRIES: AFGHANISTAN, PAKISTAN:
Monsoon Rains in Pakistan, Afghanistan Kill More than 800
Monsoon Rains in Pakistan, Afghanistan Kill More than 800
31 July 2010
Voice of America
<http://www1.voanews.com/english/news/
Pakistani-Rescuers-Struggle-in-Deadly-Monsoons-99684214.html>
A shorter URL for the above link:
<http://tinyurl.com/37zlfnj>
Pakistani officials say the death toll from floods caused by heavy monsoon
rains has risen to more than 800, and rescue workers are struggling to
reach thousands of stranded villagers.
Authorities say four days of pounding rain have inundated Pakistan's
northwest, while in Afghanistan's east and northeast 64 people have died.
<snip>
Meanwhile, the U.N. estimated Saturday that some 1 million Pakistanis have
been affected by the disaster, with thousands of homes, roads and farms
destroyed.
UN voices Pakistan flood fears as death toll soars
BBC News
Video
<http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-10827712>
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Pakistan floods 'kill 800' people and affect a million
BBC News
<http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-10826105>
The UN's Manuel Bsssler in Pakistan says many areas are cut off
The worst monsoon floods in living memory have killed at least 800 people
and affected one million in north-west Pakistan, a local official has
said.
Rescuers are struggling to reach inundated areas where transport and
communication are down.
Peshawar, the area's largest city with a 3m-strong population, is cut off.
At least 60 people have died across the border in Afghanistan where floods
affected four provinces.
Mian Iftikhar Hussain, information minister for Pakistan's
Khyber-Pakhtoonkhwa (formerly North-West Frontier) province, announced the
latest death toll. Earlier, he described the floods as the province's
worst ever.
Manuel Bessler, the head of the UN's Office for the Coordination for
Humanitarian Assistance (UNOCHA) in Pakistan, told the BBC about 1m
people's lives had been disrupted.
He could not say with certainty the full scale of the emergency in
Pakistan, as he was having trouble reaching his own offices in some of the
worst-affected areas.
UN aid workers were helping to co-ordinate efforts to provide shelter,
health care, drinking water and ready-to-eat food rations, he said.
There was concern, he added, that swollen rivers running south would carry
the floods to provinces like Sindh where heavy rain was forecast in coming
days.
Washed away
The government declared a state of emergency as Pakistan's meteorological
department said 312mm (12in) of rain had fallen over the last 36 hours in
the north-west - the largest amount for decades.
Floods kill more than 800 in Pakistan
Financial Post
Lehaz Ali, Agence France-Presse Saturday, Jul. 31, 2010
<http://www.financialpost.com/news/
Floods+kill+more+than+Pakistan/3346888/story.html>
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<http://tinyurl.com/26m9ssb>
Muqaddir Khan, 25, who arrived with nine other family members, told AFP in
a suburb of Peshawar that he had lost everything in flood.
I laboured hard in Saudi Arabia for three years and set up a small shop
which was swept away by flood in minutes. I have lost everything, Mr. Khan
said.
Razia Bibi, 48, said she and her family spent the night awake as water
kept rising.
My house is now gone under water and I could escape with a few belongings,
Ms. Bibi told AFP.
Authorities are using school buildings in Peshawar to shelter those
affected by the floods.
The army said it had sent boats and helicopters to rescue stranded people
and its engineers were trying to open roads and divert water from key
routes.
The flooding capped a week of tragedy for Pakistan, after an airliner
crashed into hills near Islamabad Wednesday, killing 152 people on board.
Pakistans weather bureau said an unprecedented 312 millimetres of rain had
fallen in 36 hours in the northwest but predicted only scattered showers
during coming days.
Over 800 people killed, lakhs affected by flash floods in Pak
Published: Saturday, Jul 31, 2010, 19:22 IST
Place: ISLAMABAD | Agency: PTI
DNA
<http://www.dnaindia.com/world/report_over-800-people-
killed-lakhs-affected-by-flash-floods-in-pak_1417030>
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<http://tinyurl.com/28rw9uu>
At least one million people in the northwest have been affected by the
worst monsoon since 1929, the UN office for the Coordination of
Humanitarian Affairs said.
Torrential rains had breached flood defences and caused many rivers to
burst their banks. Various areas in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, including
Peshawar, Charsadda and Nowshera, were affected by flooding for the fifth
day today.
Provincial capital Peshawar, which has a population of about three
million, has been cut off for the past three days.
Some 200 Chinese nationals working on a hydropower project were trapped in
Kohistan district.
People continued to flee the inundated areas in trucks and makeshift
boats. Rescuers were struggling to reach inundated areas where flooded
rivers have swept away roads and bridges and snapped communication links.
Geo News channel aired dramatic footage of riverside houses and hotels
being swept away by the swollen Swat river in the Kalam area. Reports from
the region said over 300 houses had been destroyed by the rains and
flooding.
In Punjab, about 3,000 people were stranded in Taunsa Sharif due to
floods. Over 100 villages have been flooded in Mianwali.
An emergency was declared in Dera Ghazi Khan, Bhakkar, Muzaffarghar and
Rajanpur as they could be affected when inflows of up to 900,000 cusecs
cross the Taunsa Barrage during August 1-3, officials said.
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