Images: Floods ravage Pakistan

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Flood victims flee Pannu Aqil in Sindh province on Aug. 8.

 

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People check an unconscious baby, who had been bitten by a snake inside her flooded house, after being rescued by a naval boat in Sukkur, Pakistan, on Aug. 8. Pakistani navy boats travelled through miles of flood waters on Sunday to rescue people stranded in a disaster that has angered many over the government's response.

 

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Pakistani villagers stand on the remains of a bridge washed away by heavy flooding in Bannu, Pakistan, on Aug. 8.

 

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Marooned flood victims looking to escape grab the side bars of a hovering Army helicopter which arrived to distribute food in the Muzaffargarh district of Pakistan's Punjab province on Saturday, Aug. 7.

 

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Afghan families, also hit by the floods which have devastated Pakistan, work to rid their homes of mud, on Aug. 7 in the south of Kabul, Afghanistan. More than 500 hundred families have been forced to evacuate their homes due to flooding, which originated on the country's border with Pakistan.

 

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A Pakistani flood victim sits inside her makeshift tent during a rain storm in Azakhel, Pakistan, on Aug. 7.

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A man walks through a flooded house in the Muzaffargarh district of Pakistan's Punjab province on Aug. 7.

 

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Children, whose families have declined to be rescued, wade in rising flood waters on Friday, Aug. 6 in the village of Panu Akil, near Sukkur, Pakistan.

 

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Flood-affected people jostle for food relief in Nowshera in northwest Pakistan on Aug. 6. Stormy weather grounded helicopters carrying emergency supplies to Pakistan's flood-ravaged northwest Friday as the worst monsoon rains in decades brought more destruction to a nation already reeling from Islamist violence.

 

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In this image released on Aug. 6, severe flooding continues in northwest Pakistan.

 

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Pakistani army soldiers in a helicopter rescue families stranded by flood watesr in Sanawan near Multan in central Pakistan on Thursday, Aug. 5. U.S. Army choppers flew their first relief missions in Pakistan's flood-ravaged northwest on Thursday, airlifting hundreds of stranded people to safety.

 

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Volunteers search for victims after a passenger bus plunged into the flooded Jhelum river in Pakistani administered Kashmir on Thursday. At least 22 people were killed.

 

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A boy sits on a bed as his family members salvage belongings from their destroyed house in Pabbi, located in Pakistan's northwest Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province on Thursday. After wrecking Pakistan's northwest, the worst floods in 80 years swept through the economically vital Punjab region in a catastrophe that has raised doubts about President Asif Ali Zardari's fragile leadership.

 

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An army personnel carries a flood victim to a helicopter in Sanawa, a town located in the Muzaffar Ghar district of Pakistan's Punjab province on Thursday.

 

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Residents salvage valuables from their destroyed home on Wednesday, August 4, in Pabbi near to Nowshera, Pakistan. Rescue workers and troops in northwest Pakistan struggled to reach thousands of people affected by the country's worst floods since 1929, according to officials. Residents are bracing themselves for the worst as more rains are expected.