ISLAMABAD: The National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) said yesterday that rescuers with boats and helicopters had evacuated about 50,000 people from south Punjab after raging floods inundated hundreds of villages there.
The NDMA said that death toll from rains and flooding in Punjab and other parts of the country had reached 346. It said floodwaters wreaked havoc in the Punjab province and were now passing through remote areas in Sindh.
The floods have affected 1.7 million people apart from damaging standing crops in vast areas.
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