Death toll in Pakistan floods tops 800
As the death toll from this week’s flash floods rose to at least 800 Saturday, authorities tried desperately to rescue thousands of stranded villagers from rooftops and deliver emergency relief to stricken areas.
The country’s hardest-hit region was the northwest province of Khyber-Pakhtunkwha, where provincial Information Minister Mian Iftikhar Hussain said at least 800 people had died in flooding caused by record-breaking monsoon rains. Hussain said that although the threat of further flooding had subsided in many areas in the northwest, authorities were struggling to provide relief to thousands of victims, many of whom were in dire need of food, drinking water and medicine.
“All of the government’s attention should be directed at combating this calamity,” Hussain said.
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