A thousand dead and millions of homeless: Pakistan victim of violent floods

Video These bad weather, which have been lasting for almost three months, would have caused the death of a thousand people. Some 33 million inhabitants are directly affected by these bad weather.

by (with reuters)

The usual vocabulary seems unsuitable for the violence of the bad weather that Pakistan has undergone for almost three months. For Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari, the Pakistani Minister for Foreign Affairs, the current floods, as they are violent and deadly, cannot be qualified as simple “monsoon rains”: “I have never seen any destruction or devastation of this magnitude, “he said, Sunday, August 28.

Pakistan faces a very heavy assessment after three months of floods, flows of fields and housing collapses. A thousand people were killed during these bad weather and a million houses were swallowed up. Farmers are also helpless in the face of this episode: 80,000 hectares of agricultural land were drowned under waters and 800,000 cattle heads have perished.

/Media reports.