Families waded through water and cattle were loaded onto boats in a mass evacuation of around 100,000 people in Pakistan’s Punjab province.
Several hundred villages and thousands of acres of land in the province were inundated when the Sutlej River burst its banks on Sunday.
Rescue boats have travelled from village to village over the past several days, collecting people who were forced to wait on the roofs of their houses as the water level rose around them.
Others pushed motorcycles through shallower waters or held belongings above their heads until they found dry ground.
“The flood waters came a couple of days ago and all our houses were submerged. We walked all the way here on foot with great difficulty,” 29-year-old Kashif Mehmood, who fled with his wife and three children to a relief camp, told the AFP news agency on Tuesday.
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