Villages and cropland in the central province were inundated when a river burst its banks on Sunday. Read more at straitstimes.com.
, Pakistan - Around 100,000 people have been evacuated from flooded villages in Pakistan’s Punjab province, said emergency services on Wednesday.
Mr Mohsin Naqvi, the head of Punjab’s government, said monsoon rains had prompted the authorities in India to release excess reservoir water into the river, causing flooding downstream on the Pakistani side of the border. The summer monsoon brings 70 per cent to 80 per cent of South Asia’s annual rainfall between June and September every year.
Mr Farooq Ahmad, a spokesman for the Punjab emergency services, said on Wednesday: “We have rescued 100,000 people and transferred them to safer places.”
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