Severe Flooding in Pakistan (2010)

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It is only the start of the monsoon season, but already Pakistan is experiencing some of the worst flooding it has seen in over 80 years.
Entire villages have been washed away, an early estimate of over 1,600 deaths so far and over 2 million displaced or otherwise affected.
Not only is the immediate water damage causing havoc, the floods have inundated crop-producing areas, dealing a crippling blow to the agricultural-based economy and threatening a food crisis. The Pakistani government now struggles to rescue and provide aid to millions - while still fighting with militant Islamist forces in many of the hardest hit regions. With even more heavy rains predicted in the coming days, here are a handful of recent photographs of Pakistanis as they
cope with this latest disaster.

[Raheel]

According to United Nations, flood deadly effect 1 million Pakistanis. The U.N. estimated Saturday that some 1 million people were affected, though it didn't specify exactly what that meant. It said rescuers were using army helicopters, heavy trucks and boats to try reaching flood-hit areas, but noted thousands of homes and roads were destroyed, and at least 45 bridges across the northwest damaged.

PESHAWAR City Rescuers trying to reach thousands of Pakistani flood victims were hampered by deluged roads and damaged bridges Saturday, though there were signs waters were receding in parts of the country. Floods killed more than 430 people this week, left some 400,000 people stranded in far-flung villages, and severely damaged the nation,s already-weak infrastructure.

In the northwest, the hardest-hit region, it was the worst flooding since 1929, a point hammered home by TV footage of people clinging to fences and each other as water gushed over their heads. Scores of men, women and children sat on their roofs as they waited for help.