Deaths in Pakistan from monsoon flooding since June have reached 1,061, with more than two million acres of cultivated crops wiped out, 3,457 kilometres of roads destroyed, and 157 bridges washed away
"I haven't seen destruction of this scale, I find it very difficult to put into words ... it is overwhelming," said Pakistan's Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari in an interview with Reuters, adding many crops that provided much of the population's livelihoods had been wiped out.
Flooding from the Swat River overnight affected northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, where tens of thousands of people — especially in the Charsadda and Nowshehra districts — have been evacuated from their homes to relief camps set up in government buildings. Bangash said some 180,000 people have been evacuated from Charsadda and 150,000 from Nowshehra district villages.
“Thank God we are safe now on this road quite high from the flooded area," he said. "Our crops are gone and our home is destroyed but I am grateful to Allah that we are alive and I will restart life with my sons.”Nearly 300,000 homes have been destroyed, numerous roads rendered impassable and electricity outages have been widespread, affecting millions of people.that by the time the rains recede, "we could well have one-fourth or one-third of Pakistan under water.
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