2 million caught in flood chaos

[cheekenpie]

Everywhere also got flood... Noah making a come back?

2m caught in Pakistan flood chaos
By South Asia correspondent Sally Sara and wires

The Red Cross estimates about 2.5 million people have now been affected by Pakistan's worst flooding in 80 years, and fears are growing about outbreaks of disease.

Unprecedented rains triggered floods and landslides, sweeping away thousands of homes and devastating farmland in one of Pakistan's most impoverished regions, already hard hit by years of Taliban and Al Qaeda-linked violence.

"In the worst-affected areas, entire villages were washed away without warning by walls of flood water," the Red Cross said in a statement, noting that thousands of people "have lost everything".

The latest death toll stands at more than 1,200 and is expected to rise.

The United Nations says around 980,000 people have lost their homes or been displaced, and warns the figure is expected to rise above a million.

UN secretary-general Ban Ki-moon says he is deeply saddened by the disaster.

Thousands of people displaced by the floods still do not have food or clean drinking water.

Pakistani officials warn the lack of drinking water is spreading disease, including cholera.

Health minister for the north-west Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, Syed Zahir Ali Shah, said about 100,000 people, mostly children, were suffering from illnesses such as gastroenteritis.

Transport and communication lines have been cut in many parts of the country's north-west.

In some parts of the country, flood victims have protested against the government's response to the crisis.

Some Islamist charities have stepped in, providing help to those in need, especially in areas where the insurgency is strong.

Foreign donors are offering emergency aid, but it is yet to reach some of the most vulnerable victims.

Emergency workers are now monitoring river levels across Pakistan and waiting for many to reach their peaks.

Swollen rivers are now sending flood waters to the south of the country.

The army is urging people in the path of the disaster to move to higher ground as quickly as possible.

But some have been unable to get out.

Pakistan's meteorological service forecast rains of up to 200 millimetres in the next weeks across the north-west, Pakistani-administered Kashmir, the central province of Punjab and Sindh in the south.

- ABC/AFP

Tags: disasters-and-accidents, floods, pakistan

 

[zuoom]

flooding is the initial threat. after would be the lack of clean drinking water.

 

[cheekenpie]

That one singapore no need to fear.

So maybe LKY is right. No engineering can prevent flood from freak storms...

 

[halsey02]

That one singapore no need to fear.

So maybe LKY is right. No engineering can prevent flood from freak storms...

Of course no man made engineering feat can prevent floods, if nature decides to take its course. We are missing the big picture, not about engineering nor the act of God; those who are made in charge of these engineering have gone soft & complecent. All the fat salaries they are collecting, they are no longer hungery & have spurs in their hide.

It needs a Lee Kuan Yew to set things right, and how many years can he have the energy to set things right after they have gone horribly wrong.

It is not engineering..it is people that needed badly to be changed.:p

 

[cheekenpie]

Of course no man made engineering feat can prevent floods, if nature decides to take its course. We are missing the big picture, not about engineering nor the act of God; those who are made in charge of these engineering have gone soft & complecent. All the fat salaries they are collecting, they are no longer hungery & have spurs in their hide.

It needs a Lee Kuan Yew to set things right, and how many years can he have the energy to set things right after they have gone horribly wrong.

It is not engineering..it is people that needed badly to be changed.:p

Han nor. Say what you like, but when LKY coughs, people fall in and say sir yes sir.

 

[jacobsgoh]

Han nor. Say what you like, but when LKY coughs, people fall in and say sir yes sir.

If that man is unwell, he should go see a doctor.

 

[wahlaneh]

Everywhere also got flood... Noah making a come back?

wahlaneh...
Noah no more coming back liao lah.
he's somewhere out there waiting for Judgment Day to come.
God had already warned the whole world about the Great Flood but nobody heeded His warning lor so all our fault lor.
but He has already set the rainbow in the sky as a sign of a long-lasting covenant that no longer will life be destroyed becoz of flood.
so now if anybody dies due to flood is not God's problem anymore hor.