Flooding in Southern Pakistan

September 12, 2011
This is a video describing the flooding that occurred in Pakistan this summer due to the heavy monsoon rains. Many people were stranded and had no food or shelter following the flooding.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1rs_lciOUI

September 12, 2011
Heavy monsoon rains hit the southern portion of Pakistan killing at least 200 people and 5 million people have become displaced. The country was hit with a devastating flood last year that they are still trying to recover from that killed 1,700 people and displaced 20 million people. The government set up 4,000 medical camps and had provided refuge for 150,000 residents. The floods hit some of Pakistan's areas of high poverty and the government is already trying to manage the country's finances, militant violence and the political upheaval. 21 districts have been affected by the flooding and it spread over 4.1 million acres of land destroying 1.7 million acres of agricultural land. There is also the challenge of the spread of disease since it can be spread easily by the dead farm animals rotting in the sitting flood water.
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions/asia-pacific/pakistan/110912/floods-devastate-southern-pakistan