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Floods wash away 400 villages KARACHI, Friday (AFP) Month-long monsoon rains have washed away more than 400 villages in southern Pakistan and claimed 167 lives, a provincial official in charge of flood relief said Thursday. "At least 400 villages in Badin have been washed away," additional relief commissioner for flood-ravaged Sindh province Ali Nawaz Mallah told AFP. The discovery of five more bodies in the previously drought-stricken region, brought the toll since early July to 167, he said. Another nine people died this week from rains and floods in the country's northwest. In Badin, the worst-hit district, 300,000 people have been left homeless and are living in camps, mayor Musarrat Khwaja said. The worst monsoons in Sindh for a decade began on July 4, resulting in devastating flooding of a region more than 1,000 square kilometers (400 square miles) in size. Officials have put the number of people affected either by isolation, homelessness or disease at around one million. As floodwaters recede, there have been cases of malaria and water-borne snakes have been biting flood victims. |
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