900 people killed as flood sweeping across Pakistan
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Provincial government of the Punjab has decided to lay off the agriculture tax on the areas hit by the flood and torrential rains.
Pakistan Army and civil administration have shifted hundreds of affected families in the refugees camps set up in schools and some other places in the safe areas.
According to local television channel more than 3,000 tourists, including many foreigners, have been trapped in the Naraan area, a tourist point in the North West of the country. But according to latest reports by the media 1500 tourist have been rescued to the safer places.
Government of Pakistan Friday kicked off an emergency rescue and relief operation after declaring emergency in the flood-hit parts of the country.
Pakistan's National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) has requested United Nations and international community for the urgent help in the country's worst flood for last 81 years which is now hitting the Western, Southern and eastern provinces of the country,local televisions reported.
According to rescue teams, hundreds of villages, schools, hospitals, dispensaries, bridges, roads, railway tracks, houses and billions of dollars worth properties have also been smashed in the rains and high current floods.
Pakistan Navy, Air force, Pakistan Army and dozens of other civil and government rescue teams with 31 helicopters and hundreds of boats are busy in the affected areas but those seem insufficient.
More than one million people have been stranded due to floods in various parts of the country and many have been taking shelter on rooftops, trees and electricity pools.
According to the meteorological department, current recorded rains have broken the 34-year old record of torrential rains.
"The monsoon system has ended now another weather system is likely to develop within next 12 to 24 hours, which may affect eastern parts of the country," Dr. Qamar Zaman Chaudhry, Director General Pakistan Meteorology Department told media.
The rains flooded almost all the main bazaars, roads and residential areas of the every city hit by the flood.
The Silk Route, a business road linking Pakistan and China, has been damaged at seven different points due to rain resulted land sliding. Another road in the NW Pakistan leading to Afghanistan has been closed at Jamrud city due to floods.
The affected people are facing severe shortage of food, water and medicine. Especially many people have been reportedly bit by the snakes.
Three Chinese engineers along with their security personnel reportedly went missing in Kohistan area after the flood strike the area. But 120 other Chinese engineers working on a Jinnah hydroelectric project near Mianwali city were rescued and airlifted to the safe place, local media quoted Pakistan Army rescue teams.
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