Pakistan Flood Death Toll Tops 1,300

Pakistan Flood Death Toll Tops 1,300
A girl carries her sibling as she walks through stranded flood water, following rains and floods during the monsoon season in Nowshera, Pakistan, on Sept. 4, 2022. Fayaz Aziz/Reuters
Reuters
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SEHWAN, Pakistan—Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Wednesday visited some of the flood-hit areas that cover as much as a third of the South Asian nation, where 18 more deaths took the toll from days of rain to 1,343.

As many as 33 million of a population of 220 million have been affected, officials estimate.