A woman sits outside her house flooded by heavy monsoon rains in Peshawar, Pakistan on Friday, July 30, 2010. Boats and helicopters struggled to reach hundreds of thousands of villagers cut off by floods in northwest Pakistan on Friday as …
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Updated: Saturday, 31 Jul 2010, 8:40 AM EDT
Published : Saturday, 31 Jul 2010, 8:40 AM EDT
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) - A regional minister says the death toll in floods that have lashed Pakistan has risen above 800.
Mian Iftikhar Hussain, the information minister for Khyber-Pakhtoonkhwa province in Pakistan's northwest, said Saturday that the death reports have come in from districts around the region this past week.
The northwest has been the hardest hit province in the extraordinary flooding caused by the monsoon rains.
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