Heavy rains and flooding have killed hundreds of people and displaced
hundreds of thousands in Pakistan with
monsoon rain crippling the country’s largest city, Karachi.
About 900 villages have been submerged in the waters, and some 100,000
homes have been utterly destroyed.
A Pakistani flood affected family rides on
a donkey cart through a flooded street as they evacuate the Badin district of
Sindh province on Sept. 14, 2011. (ASIF HASSAN - AFP/GETTY IMAGES)
A Pakistani flood affected villager is
helped off of a truck as she arrives at a dry location in Badin district of
Sindh province on Sept. 14, 2011. (ASIF HASSAN - AFP/GETTY IMAGES