United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton described the flooding in Pakistan as a "slow-motion tsunami" and "a humanitarian disaster of monumental proportions" respectively. Photos showed the extensive flooding across Sindh province, with millions of people displaced and over 1,600 deaths reported. The Pakistani military led rescue efforts to evacuate survivors and deliver aid to marooned people and livestock across the severely damaged and flooded regions of Pakistan.
United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton described the flooding in Pakistan as a "slow-motion tsunami" and "a humanitarian disaster of monumental proportions" respectively. Photos showed the extensive flooding across Sindh province, with millions of people displaced and over 1,600 deaths reported. The Pakistani military led rescue efforts to evacuate survivors and deliver aid to marooned people and livestock across the severely damaged and flooded regions of Pakistan.
United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton described the flooding in Pakistan as a "slow-motion tsunami" and "a humanitarian disaster of monumental proportions" respectively. Photos showed the extensive flooding across Sindh province, with millions of people displaced and over 1,600 deaths reported. The Pakistani military led rescue efforts to evacuate survivors and deliver aid to marooned people and livestock across the severely damaged and flooded regions of Pakistan.
United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton described the flooding in Pakistan as a "slow-motion tsunami" and "a humanitarian disaster of monumental proportions" respectively. Photos showed the extensive flooding across Sindh province, with millions of people displaced and over 1,600 deaths reported. The Pakistani military led rescue efforts to evacuate survivors and deliver aid to marooned people and livestock across the severely damaged and flooded regions of Pakistan.
Secretary General Ban Ki-moon "a slow-motion tsunami”
Hillary Clinton “a humanitarian disaster of monumental proportions”
A photograph taken from a Pakistani army helicopter show the extent of the flooding in Sindh province A Pakistani flood survivor who lost her home to heavy flooding, cries upon her arrival in Muzaffargarh, Pakistan, on Tuesday, Aug. 10, 2010 A man marooned by flood waters, alongside his livestock, waves towards an Army helicopter for relief handouts in the Rajanpur district of Pakistan's Punjab province on August 9, 2010 Upper Swat-Matta-Khyber Pkahtoonkhwa, Pakistan A girl floats her brother across flood waters while salvaging valuables from their flood ravaged home on August 7, 2010 in the village of Bux Seelro near Sukkur, Pakistan Pakistani villagers raise hands to get food dropped from an army helicopter at a flood-hit area of Kot Addu, in central Pakistan on Saturday, Aug. 7, 2010. (AP Photo A man wades through flood waters towards a naval boat while evacuating his children in Sukkur, located in Pakistan's Sindh province August 8, 2010. Villagers wade through flood waters with their livestock while looking for higher grounds in Sukkur, Pakistan on August 8, 2010. Pakistani navy boats sped across miles of flood waters on Sunday as the military took a lead role in rescuing survivors from a devastating disaster that has killed 1,600 people and left two million homeless An aerial view from a U.S. Army CH-47 Chinook helicopter shows a damaged bridge washed out by the floods in Ghazi, Pakistan August 5, 2010. Youths affected by floods walk outside the ruins of their home which was washed away by heavy floods in Charsadda, northwest Pakistan, Monday, Aug. 9, 2010. A Pakistani crosses a canal with the help of cable wire on a damaged bridge, which was washed away by heavy floods in Ghazi Gat in central Pakistan on Monday, Aug. 9, 2010 Pakistani flood victim Mohammed Nawaz hangs onto a moving raft as he is rescued by the Pakistan Navy August 10, 2010 in Sukkur, Pakistan