More than a third of Pakistan is under water, according to European Space Agency (ESA) satellite imagery, and deadly floods threaten to trigger secondary disasters, CNN reported.
Food shortages set in: water covered millions of acres of crops and destroyed hundreds of thousands of livestock. Meanwhile, humanitarian organizations are warning of a rise in infectious diseases.
The floods have killed more than 1,100 people since mid-June, nearly 400 of them children, and millions have been forced to flee their homes, according to Pakistan's National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA).
Pakistan, already in the midst of political and economic turmoil, has found itself at the forefront of a human-induced climate crisis.
The monsoon season in Pakistan usually brings heavy rainfall, but this year was the wettest since records began in 1961, according to the Pakistan Meteorological Department.
Heavy monsoon rains - 10 times heavier than normal - have flooded the Indus River, effectively creating a long lake tens of kilometers wide, according to ESA imagery from 30 August.
In the southern provinces of Sindh and Balochistan, rainfall, according to NDMA, exceeded the average by 500% as of August 30, which led to the flooding of entire villages and agricultural land, the destruction of buildings and the destruction of crops.
Bütün xəbərlər Facebook səhifəmizdə
USD
EUR
GBP
RUB
