Victims of Pakistan's deadly floods mobbed relief trucks
carrying food on Tuesday and authorities in the northwest
warned of famine unless the region's farmers got immediate
help with planting new crops.
The United Nations appealed for nearly $US460 million on
Wednesday to provide immediate help to millions of victims of
the worst floods in Pakistan in living memory and said it
will need millions more to help rebuild the devastated
country.
The number of people suffering from the massive floods in
Pakistan exceeds 13 million - more than the combined total of
the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, the 2005 Kashmir earthquake
and the 2010 Haiti earthquake, the United Nations say.
The death toll in flooding in central Europe rose to 11 as
Poland's interior minister said on Sunday that two more
people had died in the southwestern region of the country.
Pakistan will need billions of dollars to recover from its
worst floods in history, further straining a country already
dependent on foreign aid to prop up its economy and back its
war against Islamist militants, the UN said on Sunday.
US Army choppers flew their first relief missions in
Pakistan's flood-ravaged northwest on Thursday, airlifting
hundreds of stranded people to safety from a devastated
tourist town and distributing emergency aid.
New Zealand is to provide $2 million in emergency aid to
Pakistan following severe floods there killing up to 1500
people, and making life miserable for more than three
million.
A "full and frank" discussion was held between Taieri
ratepayers affected by May's floods and the Otago Regional
Council at a private meeting yesterday, chairman Stephen
Cairns says.
