Officials say this year's floods are comparable to 2010 -- the worst on record -- when over 2,000 people died and nearly a fifth of the country was under water.
A general view of a flooded area after heavy monsoon rains in Charsadda district in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. PHOTO | AFPHeavy rain pounded much of Pakistan Friday after the government declared an emergency to deal with monsoon flooding it said had left 900 dead and affected more than 30 million people.
"I have never seen such huge flooding because of rains in my life," octogenarian farmer Rahim Bakhsh Brohi told AFP near Sukkur, in southern Sindh province. Pakistan is eighth on the Global Climate Risk Index, a list compiled by the environmental NGO Germanwatch of countries deemed most vulnerable to extreme weather caused by climate change.
"I have seen from the air and the devastation can't be expressed in words," he said on state TV after visiting Sukkur.
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