900 people killed as flood sweeping across Pakistan

By Jamil Bhatti
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The current horrible wave of floods and landslides triggered by torrential monsoon rains has killed more than 900 people in Pakistan while 1 million people have become homeless as the flood is now hitting Western and Southern parts of the country, local media reported on Saturday.

People evacuate with their belongings as their houses were damaged following heavy monsoon rains in northwest Pakistan's Peshawar, on July 31, 2010. [Xinhua/Saeed Ahmad]



At least 342 people have been injured, while thousands of others are still missing as non-stop horrible monsoon rains, flash floods and land sliding brought disaster in the northwestern province Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP). Flood has cut off the province from the other part of the country destroying all link-roads.

"At least 800 people have died in our area, flood hit massively with a lot of destruction we are still waiting for the expected help from the other provinces and international community," said Mian Iftikhar Hussain, information of the KP.

He also appealed to the federal government and other provincial governments of the country as well as to the organizations engaged in relief activities to help extend aid to calamity-hit province.

"At least 27,000 people are still trapped in the flood water in only KP and are waiting for help, food, drinking water and medicines," he added.

The number of casualties may increase, as rescue workers feared that many people might be still under the debris of the buildings and houses collapsed with the hit of ruthless rains and flood waters.

Two main districts Nowshera and Charsadda of the province have been sunk completely in the flood water.

Communication, gas, electricity and water supplies were badly caused owing to floods and horrific rains. Telephone cables, water pipes and electricity poles were either damaged or washed away by the gushing flood water in the major part of the KP and partial in areas of Punjab, Balochistan and Sindh.

Unlucky affected people left their homes in hurry to escape for safer places when the flood hit them sleeping at night.

"We have lost every thing, households, valuables things, cattle and our good crops, we don't know where our near and dear ones are, " a flood affectee told media.

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