Pakistan S Hope As Lake Fills Flood Villages To Save A City
While officials hope cutting the sides of Manchar Lake will protect about half a million people living in Sehwan town and Bhan Saeedabad town, villages home to 150,000 people are in the path of the diverted water. The Sindh province chief minister’s hometown was among the affected villages, whose residents were warned to evacuate immediately, according to the provincial information minister. More than 1,300 people have died and millions have lost their homes in floods caused by unusually heavy monsoon rains in Pakistan this year, which many experts have blamed on climate change....