Tens of thousands trapped by Pakistan floods
Soldiers help the elderly to higher ground after they were evacuated by boat from Nowshera, in Pakistan's northwest Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province on Saturday. Adrees Latif / Reuters |
PESHAWAR, Pakistan - Rescue workers struggled on Sunday to save more than 27,000 people still trapped by massive flooding in Pakistan's northwest that has killed over 1,400 people and destroyed thousands of homes, officials said.
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