Pakistan scrambling to widen a breach in its biggest lake and prevent the waters from overflowing to swamp nearby towns and worsen unprecedented floods that have inundated a third of the South Asian nation
Waters brought by record monsoon rains and melting glaciers in Pakistan's northern mountains have affected 33 million people and killed at least 1,325, including 466 children, national disaster officials have said.
"Till yesterday there was enormous pressure on the dikes of Johi and Mehar towns, but people are fighting it out by strengthening the dikes," district official Murtaza Shah said on Tuesday, adding that 80% to 90% of townspeople had already fled.
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