Islamabad, Sept. 2 (BNA): First responders in southern Pakistan are scrambling to evacuate millions of people from remote villages on Friday as the area anxiously awaits the arrival of rainwater from the north of the country, officials said.
Provincial government spokesman Murtaza Wahab said rescue efforts in Sindh province, which was hardest hit in a series of floods since mid-June, were backed by helicopters and military boats.
The German news agency (dpa) quoted Wahab, who was supervising the evacuation process, as a race against time.
Pakistan’s Indus River, which flows from the Himalayas into the Arabian Sea in the south, overflowed again on its banks after heavy rains hit the mountains last week.
About 20,000 cubic meters of water per second is now flowing downstream and will soon reach major cities in Sindh, the disaster management agency said.
The agency said in an update that the death toll from the floods has already reached 1,208 and is expected to rise.
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