400 Killed in Flooding in Pakistan, Officials Say

PESHAWAR, Pakistan — More than 400 people have died and thousands of others were made homeless as some of the worst floods in Pakistan’s history hit this northwestern region, provincial officials said. Saood Rehman/European Pressphoto Agency An aerial view of flooded hit areas after heavy monsoon rains on the outskirts of Dera Ismail Khan, Pakistan, Friday. Hundreds of thousands of people were believed to be unable to evacuate to safer ground while the authorities struggled to reach the worst affected areas, officials said. The information minister for the Khyber-Pakhtunkwa Province, Mian Iftikhar Hussain, put the death toll at 408 in the flooding that followed two days of record…
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