Severe rains and flooding have killed at least 1,033 people, including 348 children, and left 1,527 more injured in Pakistan since mid-June
The country's National Disaster Management Authority added that 119 people had died and 71 injured in the last 24 hours alone.At least 33 million people have been affected by the disaster, Pakistan's Minister for Climate Change Sherry Rehman said on Thursday. She called the floods"unprecedented" and"the worst humanitarian disaster of this decade.
"Pakistan's priority, at the moment, is this climate-induced humanitarian disaster of epic proportions," Rehman said, urging the international community to provide aid given Pakistan's"limited" resources.A displaced man carries his daughters from his flood-hit home in Jaffarabad, a district of Pakistan's southwestern Baluchistan province on Saturday. A villager uses cots to save usable items after salvaging from his flood-hit home in Jaffarabad.
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