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Huge scale of floods tests relief effort : August 2010
News Stories, 10 August 2010
© A. Fazzina for UNHCR /Noor
Afghan refugees salvage their belongings from the mud
UNHCR staff in Pakistan say the situation is among the most difficult they have faced. Thousands of villages and towns in low-lying areas have not seen flooding on this scale in generations. Across the country, Pakistan’s Federal Flood Commission puts the number of homes destroyed or damaged at more than 300,000, with more than 14,000 cattle having perished and 2.6 million acres of crop land under water. So far some 1,600 people have been killed, but many millions of Pakistanis and Afghan refugees have been affected by the flooding.
