Images: Floods ravage Pakistan

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Flash floods were triggered by heavy monsoon rains in river Neelum in Pakistani administered Kashmir on July 30. Hundreds of people across Pakistan have been killed and thousands stranded in the ongoing spell of monsoon rains with most of the casualties caused by falling roofs and walls or electrocution.

 

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Men take refuge on a boat during heavy rain in Nowshera District, located in Pakistan's Northwest Frontier Province on July 29. Heavy monsoon rains have triggered the worst floods in decades in Pakistan's northwest, killing more than 400 people and forcing thousands from their homes as authorities struggle to reach stranded villagers.

 

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An elderly man crosses part of the Islamabad - Peshawar tollway which washed away due to heavy floods in Charsadda, part of Pakistan's Northwest Frontier Province on Friday, July 30. Over 400 people have been killed by flash floods in the last week, with the country's northwest and Baluchistan provinces bearing the brunt of the storms.

 

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Residents use buckets to scoop water from their house after it was destroyed by floods in the outskirts of Peshawar, July 30.

 

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Residents take shelter on high grounds from floods in Risalpur,in Pakistan's Northwest Frontier Province on Friday, July 30.

 

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A boy hangs on to the front of a cargo truck while passing through a flooded road in Risalpur on July 30. Three days of heavy rains caused rivers to overflow, pulling down bridges and flooding towns.

 

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Pakistani residents stand by flood water that entered a residential area of Muzaffarabad on July 30.

 

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An aerial view of flood-hit areas on the outskirts of Dera Ismail Khan, on July 30.

 

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Pakistani local residents cross a flooded street on the outskirt of Peshawar on July 28.

 

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Flash floods fill the streets after a heavy downpour in Peshawar, July 28.

 

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People dodge an army truck carrying relief supplies through floodwaters in Pakistan's Muzaffargarh district in Punjab province on Wednesday, Aug. 11. The worst flooding in the nation's history has killed more than 1,600 people and forced 2 million from their homes.

 

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Villagers displaced from their homes travel through flood waters on the back of a truck Aug. 11 on the outskirts of Muzaffargarh in Punjab, Pakistan.

 

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Pakistani flood survivors catch water bottles distributed by a military helicopter in Bssera village near Muzaffargarh on Aug. 11.

 

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A refugee from Afghanistan removes debris from her flood-destroyed house in Nowshera, Pakistan..

 

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Mohammad Omer stands with his belongings on a road near his village Karam Pur, 43 miles from Sukkur in Pakistan's Sindh province, as he flees rising flood waters.