136 killed in flash flood in Pakistan
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Vehicles move on a flooded street in northwest Pakistan's Peshawar, Sept. 2, 2012. [Xinhua] |
The NDMA officials said that that NDMA was prepared to provide aid to 29 million people, and the federal government, on the direction of the president also provided 5,000 additional tents for the emergency use.
Monsoon rains hit Pakistan every year in June and they usually start to retreat during the first week of September.
The most destructive flood hit the country in 2010 that hit parts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Punjab and Sindh. The flood swept away 20 percent of the land, killed 1,540 people and injured 2,088. According to an UN report, 557,226 houses had been destroyed, and over 6 million people had been displaced in the flood.
In 2011, flood water killed an estimated 270 civilians in southern Sindh province of the country. At least 5.3 million people were displaced and 1.2 million houses were destroyed.
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