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Deadly flooding spreads to Pakistan’s heartland (AP)

August 3rd, 2010

A Pakistan army soldier helps people affected by floods walk over a temporary make-shift bridge built by Pakistan army following heavy floods washed away the bridge in Chakdara, near Mingora in Swat valley of Pakistan on Monday, Aug. 2, 2010. The government has deployed thousands of soldiers and civilian rescue workers to save an estimated 28,000 people trapped by the floodwaters, distribute food and collect the bodies of the victims. (AP Photo/Naveed Ali)AP - Floodwaters spread into Pakistan’s heartland Tuesday, submerging dozens of villages along bloated rivers whose torrents already have killed at least 1,200 people. Fresh rains in the hardest-hit northwest threatened to overwhelm a major dam and unleash a new deluge.


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