Authorities said the overall death toll reached 1,481 on Tuesday, with 54 more people dying in rain-related floods in the past 24 hours, with the majority of those deaths in the hard-hit province of Sindh.
Canada will match donations up to $3M and send another $25M to support development projectsA baby girl drinks milk while she stands beside her mother waiting to receive food and other items distributed by the religious charity group Al-Khidmat Foundation Pakistan, in Shabqadar near Peshawar, Pakistan, on Tuesday.
Experts have said that climate change has been blamed in large part for the deluge, the worst in recent memory. "With 584,246 people in camps throughout the country, [the] health crisis could wreak havoc," Rehman said in a statement. The floods have also destroyed crops, including 70 per cent of the onion harvest, along with rice and corn, Rehman said. Much of the country's agriculture belt is under water, and Pakistan is in talks with several nations to import wheat. Iran has already dispatched fresh vegetables to Pakistan.
The floods have damaged 1.7 million homes, according to the National Disaster Management Agency. Thousands of pregnant women are living in tents and makeshift homes. "I appeal for massive support from the international community as Pakistan responds to this climate catastrophe," Guterres tweeted from Pakistan. Earlier, he had called on the world to stop "sleepwalking" through the dangerous environmental crisis.As Pakistani authorities contend with the unprecedented flooding, security forces are also struggling with militant attacks.
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