More than 1,300 people have been killed in the devastating floods that have already submerged a third of Pakistan, razing villages and displacing millions of people. The worst may be yet to come as the country’s largest freshwater lake, Manchar, threatens to overflow. FRANCE 24’s Shahzaib Wahla and Sonia Ghezali met some of the people who have lost everything in what have been described as the worst floods in Pakistan’s history.
In the city of Sehwan, in the Sind province in the south, workers are racing against the clock to reinforce a riverbank to keep the city safe from further damage. Many of the fields and houses alongside it are already several meters underwater.
