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Floods kill 1,400 in Pakistan
August-2-2010

People walk through the waterlogged street in northwest Pakistan's Pabbi on Aug. 1, 2010. The current horrible wave of floods and landslides triggered by torrential monsoon rains has killed more than 900 people in Pakistan while 1 million people have become homeless as the flood is now hitting western and southern parts of the country. (Xinhua/Saeed Ahmad)

The Azakhel Afghan refugee camps in Nowshehra in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa have completely been washed away, leaving many people beg for mercy, food and shelter. Almost two meters of waters have accumulated on the roads in part of the province, which have seriously disrupted land communication.

Some 12,000 people trapped in Nowshehra have been rescued while in Charsaddah, a MI-17 military helicopter airlifted an expecting mother in labor pain who gave birth to a baby boy. The first spell of monsoon started in Pakistan's southwest province of Balochistan on July 22, which killed over 60 people and rendered some 30,000 people homeless.

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