Punjab Province
Pakistan’s Indus River and its tributaries flooded a city and surrounding farmlands in southern Punjab province, adding to 12 million people affected by the worst monsoon floods in the country’s history. Pakistani television news channels showed residents fleeing the city and district of Muzaffargarh, between the Indus and Chenab rivers, after dikes ruptured, flooding rice and sugarcane fields. More than 3.5 million people may live in the district, one of the country’s poorest and most flood-vulnerable populations, according to 1998 census statistics.
Required Supplies :
- Tents 12,000
- Water 245,000,000 Lt
- Blankets
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- Indus river, Sukkur, Province of Sind, Pakistan, January 2005
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- A man wades through waist deep waters with his child while escaping floods in Risalpur, located in Nowshera District, in Pakistan's Northwest Frontier Province July 30, 2010. About 150 people have been killed by flashfloods and bad weather in Pakistan in the last week, with the country's northwest and Baluchistan provinces bearing the brunt of the storms, officials said on Thursday. REUTERS/Adrees Latif (PAKISTAN - Tags: DISASTER ENVIRONMENT IMAGES OF THE DAY)
