Pakistan Resumes Rescue Operations in Flood-Hit Areas
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We’ve been authenticating footage posted online to gauge the scale of flooding which has killed at least 300 people in Pakistan and Pakistan-administered Kashmir following intense rainfall.
Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif directed federal ministers to personally oversee relief work in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa where at least 323 people have died.
By Sunday morning, the death toll from the rains across the mountainous north of Pakistan had risen to at least 337 people, with most killed in flash floods, according to the National Disaster Management Authority. In Buner, a three-and-a-half-hour drive from the capital Islamabad, 207 lives were lost and others are still missing.