Mass evacuations in flood-hit Punjab hit 300,000 following alerts by India

Mongabay
Sep 3, 2025, 2:15 pm188 ptsTrendingTop
SHER SHAH, Pakistan (AP) — Officials say nearly 300,000 people have been evacuated in the past 48 hours from flood-hit areas of eastern Punjab province, bringing the total number displaced since last month to 1.3 million. Authorities on Wednesday were struggling to divert overflowing rivers onto farmlands to…

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