Images: Floods ravage Pakistan

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An aerial view of flooded areas near Tonsa Sharif in southern Punjab on Wednesday, August 4. More than 1000 people have been killed and hundreds of thousands stranded due to flash floods triggered by the ongoing monsoon rains. The worst floods the country has faced in decades have washed away crops, submerged villages and destroyed roads and bridges.

 

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Families set in for the evening in their makeshift tent homes located on a median strip on Tuesday, August 3, in Pabi. Rescue workers and troops in northwest Pakistan struggled to reach tens of thousands of people affected by the country's worst floods since 1929, according to officials.

 

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People wait to cross a flooded road in Bannu, northwestern Pakistan on Aug. 3.

 

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Residents scramble to recover water bottles dropped from a Pakistan Air Force helicopter on Monday, Aug. 2 in Nowshera, Pakistan. Rescue workers and troops in northwest Pakistan struggled to reach thousands of people affected by the country's worst floods since 1929.

 

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Flood victims use a cable car attached to a broken bridge as they flee Chakdara, a region in the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province, Pakistan, on Aug. 3.

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Vehicles are stuck in a traffic jam because of a demonstration by flood-affected people demanding the government provide aid to victims in Nowshera on Monday.

 

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People carry their belongings where heavy flooding destroyed homes in Nowshera, Pakistan on Monday. The disaster has killed up to 1,500 people and forced millions to flee their homes.

 

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People camp along railway tracks on Monday after their homes were destroyed by flooding in Nowshera.

 

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A bridge is washed away following flooding in the Swat region of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Province on Monday. The United Nations and the United States announced $10 million in emergency aid for Pakistan on Sunday.

 

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Men look at a mosque as flood waters recede in Nowshera on Sunday, Aug. 1.

 

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Inamullah, age 4, sits amidst furniture left to dry in a flooded courtyard after returning to his house in Nowshera on Sunday.

 

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Flood survivors walk over a makeshift suspension bridge built by the Pakistan army after floods washed away the iron bridge in Chakdara, near Mingora in the Swat valley on Monday.

 

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Pakistan army soldiers pass a baby as they help people flee from their flooded village in Taunsa near Multan on Sunday. The army deployed 30,000 troops but thousands remain trapped by floodwaters

 

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An aerial view of a man and his animals surrounded by floodwater in Taunsa on Sunday.

 

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A motorway that connects Nowshera with rest of the country is damaged by flash floods on Sunday.

 

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A man evacuates his children through thigh-deep waters after heavy flooding in Nowshera, Pakistan, on Sunday. Rescue workers struggled to save more than 27,000 people still trapped by the waters in northwest Pakistan, where more than 1,100 people have died and thousands of homes have been destroyed..