Floodwater ruins houses, crops in Pakistan's Chiniot
The Chenab River in high floods overflowed and entered villages located in Chiniot district in Punjab province, Pakistan, damaging houses and crops, the residents said on Saturday (August 30).
Torrential monsoon rains ravaged neighboring India as well as Pakistan this week, with further heavy downpours forecast for this weekend. On Friday, in eastern Pakistan, floodwaters hit the outskirts of the country's second biggest city, Lahore, and threatened to submerge the major town of Jhang, in the worst flooding in almost 40 years in that part of the country.
On the Chenab River, Pakistani authorities on Friday blew up part of the riverbank to siphon off some of the water into surrounding land, as it threatened to flood the nearby city of Jhang.
Villagers in Chiniot said the deluge had wrecked their livelihoods. Many had moved with belongings and set up makeshift tents along roads on higher ground.
On Saturday (August 30), the flow of water at Chenab River was 392,856 Cusecs at Chiniot Bridge, according to Flood Forecasting Centre in Lahore.
Pakistan evacuated more than 1 million people this week in the east of the country, away from the path of the three overflowing rivers that come from India.
This monsoon season so far, 820 people have died in Pakistan, according to the National Disaster Management Authority.
The flooded east of the country is home to half of the 240 million population and serves as the country's breadbasket, with widespread damage to crops from the deluge.
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