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Pakistan floods: ’50 million people homeless’
Aid is starting to arrive in Pakistan to help tens of millions of people affected by devastating monsoon floods that have submerged a third of the country.
Shandana Gulzar Khan is an MP in Pakistan. She told Newsday: “We have unconfirmed deaths of between 1,200 and 1,600 people…injured numbers are countless…fifty million people at this point in time are homeless.”
(Picture: A man walks with a bicycle in flood water following rains and floods during the monsoon season in Nowshera, Pakistan. Credit Fayaz Aziz / Reuters.)
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