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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Sat Sep 10, 2022, 12:09 PM Sep 2022

'Nobody knows where their village is': New inland sea swamps Pakistan

From a hastily erected embankment protecting Mehar city, mosque minarets and the price board of a gas station poke above a vast lake that has emerged, growing to tens of kilometres wide.

Beyond this shoreline in southern Sindh, hundreds of villages and swathes of farmland are lost beneath the water -- destroyed by floods that have affected nearly a third of Pakistan.

"Nobody knows where their village is anymore, the common man can no longer recognise his own home," Ayaz Ali, whose village is submerged under nearly seven metres (23 feet) of water, told AFP.

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Across the country, about 33 million people have been affected by the flooding, nearly two million homes and businesses destroyed, 7,000 kilometres (1.3 miles) of roads washed away and 256 bridges knocked out.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/nobody-knows-where-their-village-is-new-inland-sea-swamps-pakistan/ar-AA11Fehj

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'Nobody knows where their village is': New inland sea swamps Pakistan (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Sep 2022 OP
Unusual times, but won't these waters receed as in most floods? brush Sep 2022 #1
Roads Timewas Sep 2022 #2
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