Disaster in Photos: Pakistan Flooding ~ Photography News

Disaster in Photos: Pakistan Flooding

August 16, 2010 /PN/ The death toll is up to 1,463 from floods that have affected millions in Pakistan, more than 895,200 houses have been damaged, more than 2,000 people have been injured, more than 683,000 people have been rescued, and t least 36,000 cases of acute watery diarrhea have been reported, according to Pakistan's Disaster Authority.

According to ReliefWeb.int, more than two dozen countries, organizations and individuals have pledged about $305 million.

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Victims of the worst floods to hit Pakistan in several years walk through water-filled streets in the northwestern city of Nowshera. The flooding caused by monsoon rains has claimed up to 1,400 lives and affected 2.5 million people, including Pakistan's large population of Afghan refugees.
03 August 2010
Nowshera, Pakistan
UN Photo/WFP/Amjad Jamal

Victims of the worst floods to hit Pakistan in several years are pictured with some of their belongings in the northwestern city of Nowshera. The flooding caused by monsoon rains has claimed up to 1,400 lives and affected 2.5 million people, including Pakistan's large population of Afghan refugees.
03 August 2010
Nowshera, Pakistan
UN Photo/WFP/Amjad Jamal

A mother gives her child a bowl of clean water in Charsarda District, in Pakistan's northwestern Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Province, an area severely affected by monsoon floods. The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) is providing safe drinking water to flood victims in accessible areas of the province.
11 August 2010
Charsarda, Pakistan
UN Photo/UNICEF/ZAK

Victims of the worst floods to hit Pakistan in several years load a truck with their belongings in the northwestern city of Nowshera. The flooding caused by monsoon rains has claimed up to 1,400 lives and affected 2.5 million people, including Pakistan's large population of Afghan refugees.
03 August 2010
Nowshera, Pakistan
UN Photo/WFP/Amjad Jamal

A child grimaces as he receives a measles vaccination at a school in Charsarda District in Pakistan's northwestern Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Province. The school is housing thousands of people displaced by heavy monsoon floods. 14 million Pakistanis have been affected by the disaster, including many women and children at risk of water-borne and other diseases.
11 August 2010
Charsarda, Pakistan
UN Photo/UNICEF/ZAK

Men collect safe water from a tanker truck supported by the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) in Jala Bela Village, in the northwestern Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. Eighty percent of the village's homes have been destroyed by floods, and an estimated 2.5 million of the province's 3.5 million residents have been affected by the disaster.
04 August 2010
Jala Bela, Pakistan
UN Photo/UNICEF/ZAK

A child walks through a mud-filled street in Khwas Koorona Village, in the northwestern Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. An estimated 2.5 million of the province's 3.5 million residents have been affected by severe floods.
04 August 2010
Khwas Koorona, Pakistan
UN Photo/UNICEF/ZAK

A woman and her two children stand in their makeshift shelter, along a roadside in Pabbi Union Council, in the northwestern Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. Their home was destroyed in the floods that have affected an estimated 2.5 million of the province's 3.5 million residents.
04 August 2010
Pabbi, Pakistan
UN Photo/UNICEF/ZAK

A portrait of a young girl in Sultan Colony, an encampment of people displaced by Pakistan's potent monsoon floods, in Punjab Province, near the city of Multan.
15 August 2010
Multan, Pakistan
UN Photo/Evan Schneider

Eight-year-old Amreen washes dishes in rainwater, in Khwas Koorona Village in the northwestern Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. A destroyed house stands behind her. An estimated 2.5 million of the province's 3.5 million residents have been affected by severe floods.
04 August 2010
Khwas Koorona, Pakistan
UN Photo/UNICEF/ZAK

A man walks past a stack of personal belongings along a flooded street in the northwestern city of Nowshera, Pakistan. Pakistan's severe floods, caused by monsoon rains, have claimed up to 1,400 lives and affected 2.5 million people.
03 August 2010
Nowshera, Pakistan
UN Photo/WFP/Amjad Jamal

A boy holds his younger brother in front of a school housing thousands of people displaced by heavy monsoon floods, in Charsarda District, in Pakistan's northwestern Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Province. 14 million Pakistanis have been affected by the disaster, including many women and children at risk of water-borne and other diseases.
11 August 2010
Charsarda, Pakistan
UN Photo/UNICEF/ZAK

A view of heavy flooding caused by monsoon rains in Punjab Province, near the city of Multan, Pakistan.
15 August 2010
Multan, Pakistan
UN Photo/Evan Schneider

Photos courtesy of United Nations

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