Floods render 60,000 people homeless

ISLAMABAD: Rains triggered floods in Pakistan affecting 700,000 people and forcing 60,000 from their homes, a private news channel reported on Wednesday.

The villages have been flooded and crops destroyed in Pakistan's bread basket of Sindh province, which was one of the worst-hit areas in unprecedented floods in 2010 that affected 21 million people and caused losses of $10 billion.

"At least 700,000 people have been affected by the floods caused by the recent rains in the six districts of Sindh province," Sajjad Haider Shah, an official in the provincial disaster management authority informed.

"Some 60,000 people have been rendered homeless, who have migrated to safer areas," Shah said.

Shah at the disaster management authority said crops had been destroyed.

Rains have also caused havoc in the districts of Tando Mohammad Khan, Mirpurkhas, Thar, Umerkot and Tando Allahyar.

Copyright APP (Associated Press of Pakistan), 2011