Pakistan floods: UK charities launch DEC disaster appeal
IMAGE SOURCE, REUTERS Image caption, Flash foods have affected 33 million people and damaged one million homes An urgent appeal is being launched by the Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC) to help millions of people affected by devastating floods in Pakistan. Fifteen UK charities, including the British Red Cross and Oxfam, are asking the public for donations to protect lives as waters carry on rising. At least 1,136 people have been killed in Pakistan since June by what the UN is calling a "monsoon on steroids". People are surviving without clean water, food and shelter, the DEC says. Since the start of the rainy season in June, the country has been hit with extreme monsoon rainfall - more than twice the monthly average. Now, more than a third of the country is completely submerged by the heaviest recorded rainfall in a decade, Pakistan's climate change minister has said. The floods have also submerged vital infrastructure and farmland, killing livestock and destroying ...