BBC9 August 2010 Waters have exceeded the danger level at a key flood barrier in Pakistan’s southern province of Sindh. The Sukkur Barrage flooding means Sindh faces as much devastation as that seen further north in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Punjab provinces, say experts. Enraged survivors have been physically attacking government officials in flood-hit areas, amid […]
By Jeremy Hance, www.mongabay.com August 08, 2010 Government officials are pointing to the drought and wildfires in Russia, and the floods across Central and East Asia as consistent with climate change predictions. While climatologists say that a single weather event cannot be linked directly to a warming planet, patterns of worsening storms, severer droughts, […]
Authorities evacuate people living along swollen rivers as further downpours hamper efforts to help millions already affected Associated Press in Sukkur Sunday 8 August 2010 14.17 BST Pakistani authorities evacuated people living alongside expanding rivers today as forecasts predicted further heavy rain that could worsen the country’s flood crisis. Officials estimate that as many as […]
By Adam Mynott, BBC6 August 2010 The worst floods in Pakistan’s history have hit at least 12 million people, the government relief agency says. Gen Nadeem Ahmed, of the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA), said that figure only covered Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Punjab provinces. The full figure is likely to be much higher, with at […]
By Faris Ali; additional reporting by Asim Tanveer, Augustine Anthony and Kamran Haider in Islamabad and Junaid Khan in Swat; reporting and writing by Michael Georgy; Editing by Nick MacfieWed Aug 4, 2010 9:43am EDT NOWSHERA, Pakistan (Reuters) – Pakistanis facing life-threatening shortages scoured towns for belongings and food in several areas on Wednesday […]
By Michael Georgy Tue Aug 3, 2010 10:11am EDT ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – The worst floods in memory in Pakistan have devastated the lives of more than 3 million people, a U.N. spokesman said on Tuesday, while outrage over the unpopular government’s response to its people’s plight spreads. The catastrophe, which started almost a week […]
Pakistan is facing a “major humanitarian crisis” with up to two-and-a-half million people hit by the worst flooding in 80 years a United Nations official has said. By Ben Farmer in Kabul and Khalid Khan in Peshawar02 Aug 2010 7:00PM BST Flash floods triggered by heavy monsoon rains have killed 1,500 and officials fear the […]
Official: Trash is two feet deep, so compacted people can walk on it Reuters8/2/2010 4:39:11 AM ET BEIJING — Thousands of tons of garbage washed down by recent torrential rain are threatening to jam the locks of China’s massive Three Gorges Dam, and is in places so thick people can stand on it, state media […]
By Meredith Kolodner, DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERSunday, August 1st 2010, 10:50 AM More than 1,100 people are dead after record-breaking rains and devastating floods swept Pakistan, officials said Sunday. The death toll could rise as another 27,000 people are still trapped by surging waters, and disease threatens survivors in rescue camps. “Whole villages have washed […]
By RIAZ KHAN AND ROSHAN MUGHALASSOCIATED PRESS WRITERS PESHAWAR, Pakistan — Boats and helicopters struggled to reach hundreds of thousands of villagers cut off by floods in northwest Pakistan on Friday as the government said 430 people had been killed in the deadliest such disaster to hit the region since 1929. … Three days of […]
