Floods in Pakistan, floods have affected millions of people, hundreds of people have died, as well as the government has issued a national emergency.
The National Disaster Management Authority reported on Friday that more than 900 people have died since June, including 34 in the previous day.
People are looking for shelter as they throng the streets of the historic town of Sukkur in the southern Sindh province.
Many people sit with nothing but their mattresses; all else washed away.
The streets are flooded, and sewage lines are spewing plastic debris. Large puddles of soiled water have accumulated and are preventing any drainage.The locals are concerned that the standing water may spread waterborne diseases. There hasn’t been any relief for residents expecting to come back home to see what could be salvaged because it has been pouring all week in Sindh province.
Residences in the city centre have already been damaged in some cases, leaving only the walls standing.
Over 300 people have died as a result of the floods in the province of Sindh alone. People set up tents along the narrow alleyways in any remaining dry area because further rain is predicted.About 15% of the population, or 33 million people, were affected by the floods, according to Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Friday.
The nation has pleaded for greater international assistance, and Mr. Sharif recently met with ambassadors from other countries in Islamabad.
Earlier, Sherry Rehman, the climate minister, claimed that the nation was experiencing its eighth monsoon cycle, “although the country has only three to four cycles of rain.”
The proportions of mega flood floods, she claimed, “are frightening.”
Numerous monsoon cycles that have hit Pakistan since the start of summer have destroyed more than 400,000 homes there.
The Office for the Humanitarian Affairs Coordination (OCHA), the UN organisation in charge of disaster relief, announced on Thursday that at least 184,000 people had been relocated to relief camps.
