Severe flooding continues in Pakistan
As the monsoons keep coming, flooding continues to destroy infrastructure and cause panic in Pakistan. Lyse Doucet, BBC correspondent in Islamabad describes the scene. She says that people have been walking for days in “oceans of water” looking for shelter from the rain and that conditions are miserable and unsanitary.
A suicide bomber struck earlier today in northwest Pakistan, the area that has been the most damaged; the disasterous flooding is aggravating a very difficult political situation in a country that’s already struggling. Valuable farmland is being destroyed, fifty years of infrastructure has been washed away, and there is growing panic that more dams will be destroyed.
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