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PAKISTAN - WOMEN COPE WITH
CRISIS OF MASSIVE FLOODS & DISPLACEMENT
Villagers
move to safety from a flooded village near Nowshera, in
Massive flooding in
At least 291 people
have died in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province, in the country's northwest, since
Wednesday, said Mujahid Khan of the Edhi Foundation, a privately run rescue
service that operates morgues and ambulances across the South Asian country.
Provincial officials
called the flooding the worst in 90 years.
Residents
and shopkeepers wade through a flooded street with their belongings after heavy
rains in
Under-equipped rescue
workers have struggled to reach up to 400,000 stranded villagers, while the
highway connecting
There are also only
48 boats available for rescue.
Pakistani TV showed
striking images of people clinging to fences and other stationary items as
water at times gushed over their heads.
In
Pakistani-controlled
The death toll from
the deluge was expected to rise because many people were still missing. Poor
weather this week also may have been a factor in Wednesday's Airblue plane
crash that killed 152 people in
In the
A newly constructed
part of a dam in the Charsadda district collapsed, while the UN said it had
reports of 5,000 homes underwater in that area.