Pakistan Blows Up Dykes To Divert Floodwaters

Military specialists have blown up dykes in central Pakistan to divert swollen rivers after rising floodwaters killed hundreds of people in Kashmir.

Authorities have been using helicopters and boats to evacuate people who have been left stranded by the floods, which were triggered by heavy monsoon rains earlier this month.

The breaches were made in dykes on the overflowing Chenab River. Pakistani news channels showed footage of the floodwaters rushing through the dykes.

Pakistani residents gather on high ground in Sher Shah

Some 280 people have been killed and a further 500 injured by the flooding in the Pakistani-controlled region of Kashmir.

Another 200 people have died in Indian-controlled Kashmir, where the floodwaters have partly receded, allowing many to return home.

Pakistan's military said is it carrying out food drops in the districts of Multan, Muzaffargarh and Jhang, while army medical teams are treating injured patients.

Medical teams in Srinagar, the main city in Indian-held Kashmir, have stepped up efforts to prevent the spread of waterborne diseases.

Elsewhere in Indian-controlled Kashmir, the army has evacuated nearly 150,000 people whose homes were flooded.

Troops and army engineers are also working to restore the vital Jammu-Srinagar highway, which links Indian Kashmir to the rest of the country.

Flood victims stand beside their belongings in Multan, in Punjab province

The highway has been shut for the past 10 days due to landslides and fallen rocks.

Heavy monsoon rains hit another mountainous region of Pakistan in 2010, killing 1,700 people.

Pakistan-administered Kashmir also suffered a devastating earthquake in 2005 which killed 73,000 people.

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