Images: Floods ravage Pakistan

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U.S. Army and Pakistani soldiers sit on the cargo bay ramp of a CH-47 heavy-lift helicopter while flying over a flooded area in the Swat Valley on Tuesday, Aug. 10. The United States sent four Chinooks and two Blackhawks to Pakistan and as of Tuesday, delivered 211,000 pounds of supplies and rescued 2,305 people.

 

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Flood victims wade through waters to get to higher ground on Monday, Aug. 9, near to Kot Addu in the Muzaffargarh district in Punjab. Pakistanis are bracing for more destruction as heavy rains further swell rivers and streams.

 

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Flood victims are seen from inside a Army helicopter coming to their rescue in the Muzaffargarh district of Pakistan's Punjab province Monday, Aug. 9. Soldiers and aid workers struggled to reach at least a million people cut off by landslides that have complicated relief efforts after the worst floods in Pakistan in 80 years.

 

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Grandmother Miru Mai smiles as she adjusts a blanket of newborn twin grandchildren, as mother Zada Perveen lies covered up after being rescued by Pakistan soldiers during air operations Aug. 9 in the village of Sanawan in the Muzaffargarh district in Punjab, Pakistan.

 

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Children jostle for relief food in Nowshera, northwest Pakistan, on Aug. 9.

 

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i heard abt a woman ,given birth to a child in chopper

 

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A Pakistan army rescue helicopter distributes water to flood-affected residents in Ghouspur on Aug. 9 More than 13 million people have been affected by massive floods in Pakistan, making the scale of the disaster worse than the devastating 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, a U.N. official said.

 

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to pakistani brothers,m very ashamed abt our govt,who hasnt done anything 4 floods in pakistan.

 

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Pakistani villagers chase relief supplies dropped from an army helicopter in a heavy flood-hit area of Mithan Kot, in central Pakistan on Aug. 9. The government has struggled to cope with the scale of the disaster, which has killed at least 1,500 people.

 

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Flood victims cross difficult mountainous terrain while fleeing their villages in Garam Chashma in northern Pakistan on Aug. 9.

 

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to pakistani brothers,m very ashamed abt our govt,who hasnt done anything 4 floods in pakistan.

What do u expect the flood is creating havoc here too.. th governments focus should be primarily in own country.

Floods are also there in Leh and other parts..

85,000 people affected in Odisha floods - India - The Times of India

 

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Pakistani children wait as donated food is handed out at a relief camp set up by local volunteers on the outskirts of Sukkur on Aug. 9

 

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Navy soldiers attempt to distribute food relief to stranded flood victims in Pannu Aqil, Sindh province, on Aug. 9.

 

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Villagers wade through floodwaters with their livestock while looking for higher ground, in Sukkur on Aug. 8.