PESHAWAR, Pakistan - The death toll from massive floods innorthwestern Pakistan rose to 1,100 Sunday as rescue workersstruggled to save more than 27,000 people still trapped by theraging water.
The rescue effort was aided by a slackening of the monsoon rainsthat have caused the worst flooding in decades in Khyber-Pakhtoonkhwa province. But as flood waters started to recede,authorities began to understand the full scale of the disaster.
"Aerial monitoring is being conducted, and it has shown thatwhole villages have washed away, animals have drowned and grainstorages have washed away," said Latifur Rehman, spokesman for theProvincial Disaster Management Authority. …
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