08/15/10
From Sky News (partly)
'Twenty Million Homeless' In Pakistan Floods
| Huw Borland, Sky News Online Twenty million people are homeless after Pakistan's worst flooding in decades, the country's prime minister has revealed. The figure was announced as new flood surges hit Pakistan's south. The crisis began in late July when unusually heavy monsoon rains swept across the country from its mountainous northwest. About 1,500 people have died as a result, and aid workers warned that diseases could raise that toll. Hundreds of thousands of homes have been destroyed and many flood victims are living in muddy camps or overcrowded government buildings. Thousands more are sleeping in the open, next to their cows, goats and whatever possessions they managed to drag with them. In
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