Days of heavy monsoon rain in northern Pakistan and the Indian-administered state of Jammu and Kashmir have brought some of the worst flooding the region has seen in 60 years. More than 450 deaths have been reported and the scale of the disaster is straining rescue efforts. Hundreds of thousands remain trapped as the armed forces of both Pakistan and India ramp up relief and evacuation operations.
Historic Flooding in India and Pakistan
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A temple stands amid the waters of the overflowing river Tawi during heavy rains in Jammu on September 6, 2014. Authorities declared a disaster alert in the northern region after heavy rain hit villages across the Kashmir valley, causing the worst flooding in decades. #
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An Indian Kashmiri man uses a rope to cross swift-moving floodwater in Srinagar on September 9, 2014. Bewildered families, nursing children and clutching meager belongings, packed into makeshift relief centers after fleeing floods in India and Pakistan that have now claimed more than 400 lives. #
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Kashmiri residents struggle to withstand sudden and strong water currents while wading through floodwaters in their efforts to move to safer places in Srinagar, India, on September 4, 2014. #
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Kashmiri residents carrying a goat wade through floodwaters in Srinagar on September 4, 2014. At least 100 villages across the Kashmir valley were flooded by overflowing lakes and rivers, in the worst flooding in years. #
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Locals affected by the flood jostle for free food, distributed by a charity organization in Jafar Kot near Wazirabad, some 100 kilometers (65 miles) north of Lahore, Pakistan, on September 7, 2014. #
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Kashmiri people hold a man as he falls from a tractor evacuating flood victims to higher ground, as they move through a flooded street in Srinagar on September 9, 2014. #
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Pakistani villager Arshad Bibi cries while waiting for a boat to evacuate flood victims along the Chenab River, in Jhang, Pakistan, on September 10, 2014. Thousands of people fled their homes in Pakistan on Wednesday as monsoon flooding that has already inundated the disputed Himalayan region of Kashmir coursed down onto the plains, causing the Chenab River to breach its banks. #
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A Pakistani villager surveys his partially damaged and flooded house in a suburb of Jhang district, 260 kilometers (161 miles) northwest of Lahore, Pakistan, on September 10, 2014. #
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