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epa10167086 People move to higher grounds after their villages are inundated by flood following a breach in Manchar Lake to reduce overflow, in Dadu district, Sindh province, Pakistan, 07 September 2022. The breaching a dam to reduce the water pressure in Manchar Lake, in the southern province of Sindh, caused an overflow that destroyed 40,000 houses, in at least five towns, the deputy district commissioner of Jamshoro, Farid-Uddin-Mustafa said. According to the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA), flash floods triggered by heavy monsoon rains have killed over 1200 people across Pakistan since mid-June 2022. More than 33 million people have been affected by floods, the country's climate change minister Sherry Rehman said. EPA/WAQAR HUSSEIN