UAE rushes aid to flood-hit areas in Pakistan

UAE president orders urgent delivery of relief to shelter displaced people in the areas of flood-hit Pakistan

Last updated: September 15, 2018 | 19:29

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Reuters

Abu Dhabi: President His Highness Shaikh Khalifa Bin Zayed Al Nahyan has ordered urgent delivery of relief to shelter displaced people in the areas of Pakistan hit by floods.

The relief materials to be dispatched include blankets, tents, medical items and food.

According to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), more than 500,000 people have been affected by the floods which devastated several areas of Pakistan.

OCHA described the floods as worst in the country since 1929. Hundreds of people have died in the devastating floods, with the death toll rising dramatically every hour.

Rescuers were using army helicopters, heavy trucks and boats to try reaching flood-hit areas, the UN said.

It reported that thousands of homes and roads were destroyed, and at least 45 bridges across the northwest were damaged.

Residents evacuate to safety in a flood-hit area of Nowshera. Flash floods and landslides triggered by torrential monsoon rains have killed more than 430 people in Pakistan in three days and affected at least 700,000, officials said.

In this image released by the Pakistan Inter Services Public Relations Department, People get down from a helicopter after they were evacuated from a village flooded by monsoon rains in Charsadda near Peshawar

Pakistani residents stand by flood water that entered a residential area of Muzaffarabad on July 30

Pakistani villagers move into safe place from a flooded village near Nowshera, Pakistan

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