23 Aug 2010

Floods now spreading in southern Pakistan

6:02 am on 23 August 2010

Monsoon floods in southern Pakistan are threatening to wreak havoc in more places.

The disaster management agency in Sindh says floods have hit at least four districts, forcing at least another 200,000 people to flee for higher ground in the last 24 hours.

The floods began last month in the north-west and have since swept south. At least 1,600 people have been killed and about 20 million affected.

Millions of livestock are also at risk, according to the UN's Food & Agriculture Organisation, which said that at least 200,000 animals have died already as a result of the disaster.