Pakistan Flooding News

ISLAMABAD, (SANA): Aid worth millions of rupees poured in from Iran through ships and roads for the devastated flood- affectees that battered parts of the country and left millions homeless.

The aid from Iran includes tents, blankets, dry food, medicines and other necessary items worth $ 174,000. This aid reached through three ships and road as well which was handed over to the Red Cross in Pakistan for further distribution among the affectees.

Red Cross would distribute relief goods in the different flood affected areas.

The United Nations has appealed for 460 million dollars to deal with the immediate aftermath of the floods, estimating that 14 million have been affected and that 1,600 have died.

Waters are still high and the United Nations has now confirmed the country’s first cholera case in Mingora, in the northwestern district of Swat, and said at least 36,000 people were reportedly suffering from acute diarrhea.