WAZIRABAD, Pakistan: Orange-vested rescue teams row through streets transformed into muddy rivers in Pakistan’s Punjab province helping to pluck people and their livestock from flooded villages.
Water has gushed into the eastern province, Pakistan’s breadbasket and home to about half of its 255 million people, with three transboundary rivers swelling beyond their banks.
The latest monsoon downpour has killed at least 13 people and more than 1.4 million people living near the rivers have been affected by the floods, with over 265,000 evacuated, authorities said.
