Deputy commissioner says death tolls rise to 13.Total of seven people, including children, drowned. Search for more people is underway.
\nThe death toll from a boat that capsized while carrying flood affectees near Sindh\u2019s Bilawalpur earlier today is presumed to have surpassed 10 after officials said on Monday a search for more people is underway.
\nThe deputy commissioner said that the death tolls rose to 13; while eight people have been rescued. Rescue sources said that nearly 25 flood victims were being taken to the relief camps when the incident took place.
\nA total of seven people, including children, drowned as the boat capsized, their bodies have been rescued and recovered.
\nA huge relief operation is underway in Pakistan as the country struggles to deal with monsoon flooding that has affected more than 33 million people.
\nOfficials said 1,136 people have died since June when the seasonal rains began, but the final toll could be higher as hundreds of villages in the mountainous north have been cut off by flood-swollen rivers washing away roads and bridges.
\nOfficials said this year’s flooding has affected more than 33 million people \u2014 one in seven Pakistanis \u2014 destroying or badly damaging nearly a million homes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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