Photo gallery: Photos of the flooding in Pakistan

Date Published: 03/08/2010 06:30

Recent heavy rainfall in Pakistan’s north-western region has directly affected more than one million people and caused widespread destruction to houses and infrastructure.

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The images below have been supplied by Reuters news agency. Please note, some images are very distressing.

 

Children play amidst tents after residents shifted to camps to take refuge from heavy floods in Nowshera, located in Pakistan's northwest Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Province, August 3rd, 2010. REUTERS/Adrees Latif, courtesy of www.alertnet.org.

 

 

A man holds his son in his courtyard after returning home as flood waters receded in Nowshera, located in Pakistan' s northwest Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Province, 2nd August 2010. REUTERS/Adrees Latif, courtesy of www.alertnet.org.

 

 

A boy leans out of the window of a cargo truck after townsmen created a blockade, halting traffic until relief supplies were distributed to flood victims in Nowshera, located in Pakistan's northwest Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Province August 2, 2010. REUTERS/Adrees Latif, courtesy of www.alertnet.org.

 

 

Passengers and cargo trucks are gridlocked for miles after townsmen blocked the roads to traffic until relief supplies were distributed to flood victims in Nowshera, located in Pakistan' s northwest Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Province, 2nd August 2010. REUTERS/Adrees Latif courtesy of www.alertnet.org.

 

Flood victims line-up to collect relief supplies from the Army in Nowshera, located in Pakistan's northwest Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Province, 2nd August 2010. REUTERS/Adrees Latif courtesy of www.alertnet.org.

 

A female flood victim carries relief supplies, distributed by the Army, through muddy waters while holding her son in Nowshera, located in Pakistan's northwest Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Province, 2nd August 2010. REUTERS/Adrees Latif courtesy of www.alertnet.org.

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