Images: Floods ravage Pakistan

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Ikramulla, 37, stands near a pen where he lost a handful of water buffalo to floods in Nowshera, on Aug. 1.

 

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A Pakistani paramilitary soldier guides traffic through a flooded road in Bara Banda, Pakistan on Aug. 1.

 

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A resident uses a phone to photograph the flooded town of Nowshera from a nearby hilltop in Pakistan's northwest Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Province on Saturday, July 31. Heavy monsoon rains have triggered the worst floods in decades in Pakistan's northwest, killing hundreds of people and forcing thousands from their homes.

 

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Army soldiers carry the body of a flood victim to higher ground on July 31.

 

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Flood-displaced residents take shelter in a school at the Mohib Bhanda area in Nowshera on July 31.

 

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A family rescued by army soldiers passes a cargo truck with men on top taking shelter from heavy floods in Nowshera on July 31.

 

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A villager salvages a washing machine through deep floodwater on the outskirts of Peshawar, Pakistan, on July 31.

 

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A man tries to get past a soldier into a flooded area to evacuate his family in Nowshera on July 31.

 

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Men assist residents in crossing the Islamabad Peshawar tollway, parts of which were washed away by heavy floods, in Charsadda, Pakistan, on July 31.

 

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Houses are submerged in Dera Ismail Khan on July 31.

 

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Stranded Pakistani villagers wait for rescue helicopters on their house in Nowshera, Pakistan, on July 30.

 

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A man tries to cross a makeshift bridge to escape his flooded home in Nowshera on July 31.

 

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Pakistani soldiers carry an injured Chinese engineer in Manshera, Pakistan, on July 31. The main was rescued from a hydropower plant in a flood-hit area of Dubair.

 

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An aerial view shows Nowshera city submerged in floodwaters caused by heavy monsoon rains on July 30.

 

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An exhausted boy has a nap in his house flooded by heavy monsoon rains in Peshawar on July 30.