Images: Floods ravage Pakistan

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Stranded villagers board a U.S. helicopter that arrived to transport them from Kalam, located in the Swat Valley, on Aug. 17.

 

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A flood victim walks on a damaged railway track while crossing floodwaters to reach his village in Sultan Kot, about 31 miles from Sukkur in the Sindh province, on Tuesday, Aug. 17. The World Bank will release $900 million dollars to help fund relief efforts for Pakistan's flood disaster as international agencies warned millions of people were at risk from disease.

 

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Flood victims wait as doctor Zahid Uall treats a girl at an emergency medical center in Charsadda, in the northwest Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province, on Aug. 17.

 

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Pakistanis displaced by flooding reach to grab a bag of food aid during a distribution on the road near the flood line outside of Sukkar, southern Pakistan, Tuesday

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Pakistanis gather on a thin section of road between two parts of the flood line at a road that has been inundated by water outside of Sukkar, in Sindh province, southern Pakistan on Tuesday

 

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Pakistani flood victims sit in a packed a U.S. Navy MH-53E helicopter during a rescue and aid mission by the U.S. Marine Expeditionary Unit on Tuesday, August 17 in Kalaam, Pakistan.

 

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A helicopter provided by the United Arab Emirates fly food supply over flood infected areas in Pakistan's near Taunsa Sharif in Punjab province Wednesday

 

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The Pakistani Army distributes food to stranded flood victims in Basera, near Muzaffargarh in Punjab province, Pakistan on Wednesday. The United Nations warned that up to 3.5 million children were at risk from water-borne diseases in flood-hit Pakistan.

 

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A flood victim holds his daughter as he wades through water to return to their village in Tank near Dera Ismail Khan, Pakistan on Wednesday.

 

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People struggle to get relief foodstuffs distributed by volunteers at outside a camp for flood-affected people in Hyderabad, Pakistan on Wednesday, Aug. 18, 2010.

 

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A Pakistani family stands on its farm compound surrounded by flood water, near Bachel in Sindh Province, southern Pakistan, on Aug. 19.

 

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A flood survivor hangs on to a hovercraft and waits to get relief food distributed by naval officials in Sangi Village near Sukkur in southern Pakistan on Aug. 19.

 

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In an aerial view, Jampur, in Pakistan's Rajanpur district, lies underwater on Aug. 19.

 

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Flood survivors negotiate a flooded road in Muzaffargarh in central Pakistan on Aug. 19.

 

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Flood victims run after a truck that the Pakistan military was using to give away aid at a tent camp Aug. 19 in Sukkur, Pakistan. The country's agricultural heartland has been devastated, with rice, corn and wheat crops destroyed by floods.

 

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Lal Pir power generating station is submerged in flood waters, further increasing a power crisis in Muzaffargarh near Multan, Pakistan on Aug. 19. Islamist terrorists may exploit the chaos and misery caused by the floods in Pakistan to gain new recruits, the country's president said.