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Flood relief flights grounded in Pakistan (AP)

August 6th, 2010

Pakistan army soldiers in a helicopter rescue stranded families in Sanawan near Multan in central Pakistan on Thursday, Aug. 5, 2010. U.S. Army choppers flew their first relief missions in Pakistan's flood-ravaged northwest Thursday, airlifting hundreds of stranded people to safety from a devastated tourist town and distributing emergency aid. In the country's south, authorities began evacuating half-a-million people as the worst monsoon rains in decades threatened new destruction. (AP Photo/Khallid Tanveer)AP - Bad weather grounded helicopters carrying emergency supplies to Pakistan’s flood-ravaged northwest Friday amid warnings the worst monsoon rains in decades would bring more destruction to a nation already reeling from Islamist violence.


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