Water from Pakistan’s largest lake threatens to spill into densely populated cities
It’s the latest challenge facing officials as the country grapples with an escalating disaster as heavy monsoon rains combine with”In the dryer areas, survivors are telling us that one difference now for them is the prices of the food, because the roads are inaccessible. It is four times the prices of the market. They cannot afford to eat,” she said. Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said on August 30 the floods were “the worst in the country’s history” and estimated the calamity had caused more than $10 billion in damages to infrastructure, homes and farms.According to charity Action Against Hunger, 27 million people in the country did not have access to enough food prior the floods, and now the risk of widespread hunger is even more imminent.Additional reporting from CNN’s Azaz Syed and Reuters.
