Deadly flash floods kill more than 800 in two months as 300,000 escape disaster

Flash floods in Pakistan have devastated large areas of a number of its provinces, killing more than 800 people and displacing 300,000. Experts believe that flooding could get worse in the future due to climate change

Pakistan has killed more than 800 people and displaced 300,000 in just two months (

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More than 800 people have been killed in devastating floods in just two months.

Officials in Pakistan have confirmed that 820 people have died since June 14, when unusually heavy monsoon rains caused flash floods in the country.

In August alone, around 300 deaths were reported, as emergency services rushed to rescue those trapped with heavier rains forecast.

An estimated 300,000 people were also displaced and around 60,000 homes were damaged, according to Pakistan's National Disaster Management Authority, and one million people were affected in some way. or another.

Despite contributing less than 1% of global emissions, Pakistan is one of the countries most affected by climate change.

Experts say it needs to significantly improve its infrastructure to cope with future crises.

Relief funds have been set up to help thousands of disaster victims (

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Mohammed Safar, from Lasbela in Balochistan, told the Guardian: "If there had been a flood at any other time, we could have been swept away...