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Pakistan floods: Officials struggle to stop biggest lake overflowing
Source: BBC
Pakistan floods: Officials struggle to stop biggest lake overflowing
By Pumza Fihlani in Islamabad & Simon Fraser in London
BBC News
6 September 2022
Pakistani authorities are struggling to stop their biggest lake from bursting its banks after last-ditch attempts to lower water levels failed.
Manchar Lake, in Sindh province, is dangerously full after record monsoons that inundated a third of Pakistan.
Three breaches of the lake's banks so far - to protect areas downstream - have displaced 100,000 people.
But it could still overflow and rescue teams are racing to evacuate many more people who remain at risk of drowning.
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Read more: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-62764224
