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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Lucy Skoulding

Pakistan breaches lake to help save city from flooding as death toll climbs to 1,300

AP

Authorities in flood-hit Pakistan have breached the country’s largest freshwater lake, displacing around 100,000 people from their homes but saving more densely populated areas from flood water.

Engineers cut into an embankment of Lake Manchar to release rising waters in the hopes of protecting about half a million people who live in the city of Sehwan and the town of Bhan Saeedabad.

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