0 SHARES Share TweetIslamabad (AFP), Aug 24 – Record monsoon rains were causing a “catastrophe of epic scale”, Pakistan’s climate change minister said Wednesday, announcing an international appeal for help in dealing with floods that have killed more than 800 people since June. Rainfall in Balochistan province was 430 percent higher than normal, he said, while Sindh was nearing 500 percent. The town of Padidan in Sindh had received over a metre (39 inches) of rain since August 1, he added. “It is a climate catastrophe of epic scale,” Rehman said, adding three million people had been affected. Some 700,000 livestock in Sindh and Balochistan had been killed, and nearly two million acres of farmland destroyed, officials added.

Source: Daily Nation August 25, 2022 00:52 UTC