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GENEVA, 15 August 2011: United Nations humanitarian agencies in Pakistan are on standby after sustained rains have reportedly affected up to 750.000 people in Punjab and Sindh provinces, killing up to 25 and displacing some 50.000 others.
The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) conducted informal assessments last week in some areas where there had been a significant loss of homes, and district authorities were already relocating families to shelters.
The current flooding from this year’s monsoon season has stemmed from heavy rains across the country.
This is opposed to last year when torrential downpours in the north sent a series of floods cascading through the country as rivers overflowed their banks on their journey south in one of the worst such disasters in history.
This resulted in killing some 2.000 people but affecting 20 million others, destroying or damaging more than two million homes and causing 10 billion US dollar in damage.
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