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Pakistan Orders Evacuations as Flooding Worsens
August 26, 2010
http://www.voanews.com/english/news/Pakistan-Orders-Evacuations-as-Flooding-Worsens-101547423.html
Authorities in Pakistan are evacuating tens of thousands more people in the southern part of the country as raging floodwaters inundate more cities and towns. The new displacements are taking place as humanitarian aid agencies are struggling to bring relief to millions peoples uprooted by Pakistan’s worst disaster.
Pakistani officials issued the order after raging floodwaters broke through an embankment in the southern district of Thatta.
Provincial disaster management department spokesman Khair Mohammad said army personnel, helicopters and boats have been deployed to carry out the evacuations.
“[The] administration has issued a ‘red alert.’ And all the population, which is settled in these cities and villages – they have been asked to vacate their houses,” Mohammad said. “Due to this breach [of the embankment], it is apprehended that more than 500,000 people will be now affected and they have to be evacuated from there.”
August 26, 2010
http://www.voanews.com/english/news/Pakistan-Orders-Evacuations-as-Flooding-Worsens-101547423.html
Authorities in Pakistan are evacuating tens of thousands more people in the southern part of the country as raging floodwaters inundate more cities and towns. The new displacements are taking place as humanitarian aid agencies are struggling to bring relief to millions peoples uprooted by Pakistan’s worst disaster.
Pakistani officials issued the order after raging floodwaters broke through an embankment in the southern district of Thatta.
Provincial disaster management department spokesman Khair Mohammad said army personnel, helicopters and boats have been deployed to carry out the evacuations.
“[The] administration has issued a ‘red alert.’ And all the population, which is settled in these cities and villages – they have been asked to vacate their houses,” Mohammad said. “Due to this breach [of the embankment], it is apprehended that more than 500,000 people will be now affected and they have to be evacuated from there.”
