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A boy hangs on to the front of a cargo truck while passing through a flooded road in Risalpur, located in Nowshera District in Pakistan’s Northwest Frontier Province July 30, 2010.
(REUTERS/Adrees Latif)
Pakistani flood survivors line up beside a damaged bridge in Medain, a town of Swat Valley on August 2, 2010.
(A Majeed/AFP/Getty Images)
Flood-affected people jostle for food relief in Nowshera in northwest Pakistan on Friday, Aug. 6, 2010.
(AP Photo/Mohammad Sajjad)
A woman yells as her child is evacuated from the roof of a mosque where residents were taking refuge from flood waters in Sanawa, Pakistan on August 5, 2010.
(REUTERS/Stringer)
It is only the start of the monsoon season, but already Pakistan is experiencing some of the worst flooding it has seen in over 80 years. Entire villages have been washed away, an early estimate of over 1,600 deaths so far and over 2 million displaced or otherwise affected. Not only is the immediate water damage causing havoc, the floods have inundated crop-producing areas, dealing a crippling blow to the agricultural-based economy and threatening a food crisis. The Pakistani government now struggles to rescue and provide aid to millions – while still fighting with militant Islamist forces in many of the hardest-hit regions. With even more heavy rains predicted in the coming days, here are a handful of recent photographs of Pakistanis as they cope with this latest disaster. (41 photos total)
Από boston.com
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