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Saturday, August 7, 2010

Pakistan floods affect 12 million

Pakistani villagers evacuate an elderly person with the help of a Pakistan Navy crewman from flooded areas at Toree Band, in the Kashmor district, near Sukkar, in Pakistan's Sindh province, Friday, Aug. 6, 2010.
read moreAl Jazeera
About 12 million people have now been affected by Pakistan's worstfloods in 80 years, disaster officials have said, raising previous estimates by three times. Nadeem Ahmed, chairman of the National Disaster Management Authority, said that the figure only applied to the northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and central Punjabprovinces,...

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