Pakistan Floods - August 2022
The Guardian newspaper reports in this article that over 1,000 lives have been lost and 33 million people have been displaced and injured since June. The number of people, reported by the National Disaster Management Authority (Pakistan) , that died on Sunday was 119 and from Friday to Saturday was 45 people. Daily Mail The cause of this loss of life and damage is thought to be climate change with other contributing factors such as "the vulnerability of the poor citizens, steep mountainous slopes in some regions, the unexpected destruction of embankments and dams, and some natural climate variation." Pakistan has had an unbroken cycle of monsoon rains for eight weeks and has left a lot of infrastructural damage and a third of the country is under water. It has been reported , by the additional deputy commissioner of Swat, that roads over 130 kilometres (80 miles) had been damaged and 15 bridges were completely destroyed as the flood wreaked havoc and more than 100 houses a