Pakistanis Flee Punjab City as Floods Hit 12 Million
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Pakistan’s Indus River and its tributaries flooded a city and surrounding farmlands in southern Punjab province, adding to 12 million people affected by the worst monsoon floods in the country’s history.
Pakistani television news channels showed residents fleeing the city and district of Muzaffargarh, between the Indus and Chenab rivers, after dikes ruptured, flooding rice and sugarcane fields. More than 3.5 million people may live in the district, one of the country’s poorest and most flood-vulnerable populations, according to 1998 census statistics.