Tuesday, August 10, 2010

Floods in Pakistan



Men take refuge on a boat during heavy rain in Pakistan's Nowshera
District


Residents watch water pour through a street on the outskirts of
Peshawar


Pakistani villagers move to high ground escaping a flood-hit
village near Nowshera


Nimra, a three-year-old girl, who was rescued along with her family
from Kaalam in the northern area, kisses the window glass of an army helicopter
after their arrival at Khuazakhela in Swat district located in Pakistan's
northwest Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Province


A Pakistani volunteer uses a small boat to evacuate locals in a
flood-hit area of Nowshera


A soldier evacuating residents carries a flood victim to a
helicopter in Sanawa


Pakistani flood survivors line up beside a damaged bridge in
Medain, a town of Swat Valley


People wait to cross a flooded road in Bannu, northwestern
Pakistan


A flood survivor carries a soaked mat in a flooded area of
Nowshera


Pakistani women pray at sunset by the Ravi river in Lahore



Onlookers perched on a damaged bridge watch a flood survivor use a
rope to cross the river in Chakdara in Pakistan's Swat Valley


A family takes refuge on top of a mosque while awaiting rescue from
flood waters in Sanawa, a town located in the Muzaffar Ghar district of
Pakistan's Punjab province





A woman yells as her child is
evacuated from the roof of a mosque where residents were taking refuge from
flood waters in Sanawa, Pakistan







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