More than 1,000 dead, a third of the country flooded: Pakistan is facing exceptional floods that have prompted the government to request emergency international assistance. These images show the scale of the disaster.
The floods caused by monsoon rains in Pakistan have killed at least 1,136 people, according to the latest report published on Monday evening. A third of the country is now “under water”, according to the Minister for Climate Change. A massive relief operation is underway, and international aid is slowly starting to arrive.
Tens of millions of people in Pakistan continue to battle the worst monsoon rains in three decades, which have killed at least 1,136 people, washed away countless homes and destroyed vital farmland.
The country will need more than $10 billion to repair the damage and rebuild damaged infrastructure, the country’s planning and development minister told AFP on Tuesday.
It’s an apocalypse, never in my life have I seen such desolation,” Faisal Amin Gandapur, a minister in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government, told Le Monde. We remembered the floods of 2010, but the scale of this year’s floods is much bigger. The Dera Ismail Khan district, where I am, is 55% flooded. Two hundred villages have disappeared. Farmers and residents have lost everything.
