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Pakistan Flooding

Incessant sprees of monsoon rains cause floods, wreaking havoc in Pakistan.

Friday, August 6, 2010 3:17 PM
A family takes refuge on top of a mosque while awaiting rescue from flood waters in Sanawa, a town located in the Muzaffar Ghar district of Pakistan's Punjab province August 5.
A family takes refuge on top of a mosque while awaiting rescue from flood waters in Sanawa, a town located in the Muzaffar Ghar district of Pakistan's Punjab province August 5.
Photo Credit: Reuters, Stringer
  • A family takes refuge on top of a mosque while awaiting rescue from flood waters in Sanawa, a town located in the Muzaffar Ghar district of Pakistan's Punjab province August 5.
  • Flood victims evacuate with their livestock while looking for higher grounds in the Muzaffargarh district of Pakistan's Punjab province August 6.
  • A man fishes in the Sindh river in Sukkur, in Pakistan's Sindh province August 3. Residents along the river said water levels continued to rise as local authorities asked them to move to higher grounds.
  • A destroyed building after a flash flood is shown in Medain, a town of Swat valley on August 2.
  • A woman living along the Sindh river washes food bowls in Sukkur, in Pakistan's Sindh province August 3.
  • A woman washes a matt as she sifts through salvageable items from her flood destroyed home on August 3 in Pabi near to Nowshera, Pakistan.
  • A man recovers a wheelbarrow from his flood destroyed home on August 3 in Pabi near to Nowshera, Pakistan.
  • A boy stands on a field covered by flood waters on August 3 in Pabi near to Nowshera, Pakistan.
  • A Pakistani child walks past a house destroyed by the floods in Majuky village near Charsadda on August 3.
  • People line up to receive water relief supplies from a local charity on August 3 in Pabi near to Nowshera, Pakistan.
  • A Pakistani flood survivor carries a mat in a waterlogged area of Nowshera on August 3.
  • Pakistani aid volunteers upload relief goods destined for flood survivors in Lahore on August 3.
  • Pakistani family members carry belongings across a bridge as they prepare to evacuate after authorities issued fresh flood warnings in Peshawar on August 3.
  • Pakistani men prepare food distributed to Pakistanis displaced by floods at a camp set up on the outskirts of Charsadda on August 3.
  • A Pakistani man gathers up some of his belongings outside his flooded house in Nowshera on August 2.
  • Local residents scramble to recover water bottles dropped as relief supplies from a Pakistan Air Force helicopter on August 2 in Nowshera, Pakistan.
  • A man walks to help work on a mosque damaged by flood waters on August 2, 2010 in Nowshera, Pakistan.
  • People evacuating Nowshera wait in traffic as other residents block the road in pursuit of relief supplies on August 2 in Nowshera, Pakistan.
  • Women carry belongings as they wade through flood waters on August 1 in Nowshera, Pakistan.
  • Family members remove furnishings from their flood affected home on August 1 in Nowshera, Pakistan.
  • A man leads his buffalo down a flood affected street on August 1 in Nowshera, Pakistan.
  • A woman looks onwards as she surveys the damage to her flood affected home on August 1 in Nowshera, Pakistan.
  • A girl looks out onto the street in front of her flood affected family home on August 1 in Nowshera, Pakistan.
  • Local residents stand in a flooded street on the outskirt of Peshawar on July 28.
  • Local residents stand in a flooded street on the outskirt of Peshawar on July 28.
  • Flood water partially submerges cars as Pakistani commuters travel through a flooded street after heavy monsoon rain in Karachi on July 27.
  • Pakistani local residents scramble to safety in a flood-hit area of Nowshera on July 29.
  • A resident collects his belongings from the ruins of his house, which collapsed due to floodwaters, after heavy rain in a village in Kohlu district, Pakistan's Balochistan province on July 24.
  • Pakistani local residents cling to each other as they walk through waters in the flood-hit Bakhtiyarabad area in the District of Sibbi on July 23.
  • A Pakistani local resident stands next to his belongings after his home collapsed in the flood-hit Bakhtiyarabad area in the District of Sibbi on July 23.
  • Pakistani local residents cling to a rope as they are evacuated from the flood-hit Bakhtiyarabad area in the District of Sibbi on July 23.
  • A man carries melons as he wades through a flooded street after heavy rains in Peshawar July 29.
  • Pakistani residents carry a bike across floodwaters.
  • Pakistani local residents leave a flood-hit area of Nowshera on July 29.
  • Residents and shopkeepers wade through a flooded street with their belongings after heavy rains in Peshawar July 29.
  • Pakistani local residents remove wood from their collapsed huts in a flood-hit area of Nowshera on July 29.
  • A Pakistani boy removes wood at his collapsed mud house in a flood-hit area of Nowshera on July 29.
  • A man put his clothes out to dry near his makeshift tent after torrential rains in Lahore July 23.
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