Southern Pakistan braced for more flooding on Thursday as a surge of water flowed down the Indus river, compounding the devastation in a country a third of which is already inundated by a disaster blamed on climate change.
Record monsoon rains and melting glaciers in northern mountains have triggered floods that have killed at least 1,191 people, including 399 children.
Pakistan has received nearly 190% more rain than the 30-year average in the quarter from June to August, totalling 390.7mm . "We lost our house to the rain and floods, we're going to Karachi to our relatives, no one has came to help us," said Allah Bakash, 50, leaving with his family and belongings loaded on a truck.
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