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Flood-hit Pakistan: UAE president orders relief aid, Saudi Prince sends his condolences
Due to deadly monsoon flooding in Pakistan, UAE President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed orders urgent relief and humanitarian assistance to the country, Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman offered his condolences to Pakistani President Arif Alvi.
The unusually strong monsoon showers have affected more than 33 million people, according to officials, destroying houses and swaths of lands and crops.
WAM said that the relied aid "includes some 3,000 tons of food supplies, as well as tons of medical and pharmaceutical supplies, in addition to tents and shelter materials."
The UAE president also ordered that humanitarian relief services are secured to help those displaced by the floods in order to face the challenges before them, WAM reported.
"The UAE relief teams will also provide all kinds of humanitarian support to Pakistani cadres and institutions concerned with efforts to secure the safety of the affected and their food, medical and logistical needs," the agency added.
Pakistan 🇵🇰 flood disaster
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National emergency declared. Some officials are comparing monsoonal rains this year to 2010 - the worst flood year on record where nearly 20% of the country became submerged. This is impacting over 30,000,000 people right now.pic.twitter.com/VjZVHVEZpm
The Crown Prince sent a cable expressing his “profound sorrow and sincere sympathy to the President and families of the deceased, wishing the deceased Allah Almighty’s forgiveness, and the injured a speedy recovery,” SPA said.
On Monday (August 29), AFP reported that since June the death toll in Pakistan has so far reached 1,061 people, citing figures released by the National Disaster Management Authority.
Deaths from flooding in monsoon drenched Pakistan near 1,000
The annual monsoon is essential for irrigating crops and replenishing lakes and dams across the Indian subcontinent, but it can also bring destruction.
Climate Change Minister Sherry Rehman called it “the monster monsoon of the decade.”
This year’s floods are comparable to 2010 -- the worst on record -- when more than 2,000 people died and nearly a fifth of the country was under water.
The government has declared an emergency and appealed for international help
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