Flash floods kill more than 280 people in India and Pakistan
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Cloudbursts are causing chaos in mountainous parts of India and Pakistan, with tremendous amounts of rain falling in a short period of time over a concentrated area.
Flash floods triggered by heavy rains have killed more than 360 people in Pakistan and India and led to severe devastation across the South Asian region. At least 307 people have died and 23 have been injured in Pakistan, according to the latest details from the nation’s National Disaster Management Authority.
COLUMN. While it is important not to conflate the two, certain similarities are evident in the trajectory of these two seemingly interminable crises, historian Jean-Pierre Filiu writes in his column.
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