Pakistan PM calls for rich to help country's flood victims

Record ID: 1686873

  • Title: Pakistan PM calls for rich to help country's flood victims
  • Date: 27th August 2022
  • Summary: KHAIRPUR, SINDH PROVINCE, PAKISTAN (AUGUST 27, 2022) (REUTERS) HOUSES AND MOSQUE PART SUBMERGED IN FLOOD WATER VARIOUS OF HOUSE DESTROYED BY FLOOD MAN STANDING IN KNEE-DEEP WATER / CLOSED SHOPS AT BAZAR BUILDING AND PETROL STATION PART SUBMERGED FLOOD WATER INSIDE AND AROUND MOSQUE MAN WADING THROUGH WATER IN FLOODED STREET FLOODED TREES AND HOUSES MAN HOLDING FRESH WATER CAN WADING THROUGH WATER (SOUNDBITE) (Urdu) UNIDENTIFIED LOCAL RESIDENT, WHO IS AFFECTED BY FLOODS, SAYING: "There is no administration here. The DC (deputy commissioner) is doing nothing. Look! The houses are collapsing and water is standing here. It has been raining for a week to 10 days. You can see there, my house has collapsed - a total loss - and I could not save anything from it." FLOODWATER OUTSIDE HOUSES
  • Embargoed: 10th September 2022 18:56
  • Keywords: 30 million people Pakistan floods province of Sindh
  • Location: KHAIRPUR AND SUJAWAL, SINDH PROVINCE, IN AIR, PAKISTAN
  • City: KHAIRPUR AND SUJAWAL, SINDH PROVINCE, IN AIR, PAKISTAN
  • Country: Pakistan
  • Topics: Asia / Pacific,Disaster/Accidents
  • Reuters ID: LVA001102327082022RP1
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text: Pakistan's Prime Minister Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif on Saturday (August 27) visited a flood hit region of his country and appealed to the rich to help the victims in poor areas.
    Historic monsoon rains and flooding in Pakistan have killed more than 900 people and affected more than 30 million people over the last few weeks, the country's climate change minister said this week, calling the situation a "climate-induced humanitarian disaster of epic proportions".
    During a visit to review rescue and relief operations in flood-hit areas of villages in Sujawal, Sindh province, the prime minister was given a detailed briefing over the situation and the relief efforts.
    Elsewhere in Sindh province, in Khairpur, people complained of not getting any help from the government after their houses were destroyed by the floods.
    “There is no administration here. The DC (deputy commissioner) is doing nothing. Houses are collapsing and water is standing here. It has been raining since more than a week rather ten days. You can see there, my house has collapsed – a total loss -- and I could not save anything from it,” said an unidentified local resident.
    Pakistani leaders have appealed to the international community for help and plan to launch an international appeal fund.
    The military has joined the country's national and provincial authorities in responding to the floods and the country's army chief on Saturday visited the southern province of Balochistan, which has been hit heavily by the rains.
    (Production: Waseem Khan, Waseem Sattar, Shahab Shahabuddin, Lucrezia Lozza)
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