Thursday, September 15, 2011

300,000 homeless due to flood in Pakistan

Family members, displaced by floods, use a tarp to escape a monsoon downpour while taking shelter at a make-shift camp for flood victims in the Badin district in Pakistan's Sindh province Sept 14, 2011. Floods this year have destroyed or damaged 1.2 million houses and flooded 4.5 million acres (1.8 million hectares) since late last month, according to officials and Western aid groups. More than 300,000 people have been made homeless and about 200 have been killed. 


A couple carry their belongings as they wade through flood waters in the village of Ali Nawaz Khuso, Badin district of Pakistan's Sindh province Sept 14, 2011.


A man carries his sister as he escapes from the flood waters of Pangrio town in the Badin district of Pakistan's Sindh province Sept 14, 2011. 


Villagers wade through a flooded street in Pangrio town in the Badin district of Pakistan's Sindh province Sept 14, 2011.

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