Photo Gallery: Flood-hit Akora Khattak in KP
Getting some relief: Boys watch as relief supplies are handed out in Akora Khattak in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Photo: Talib Qizilbash
The Kabul River first overflowed at the end of July, before many other areas of Pakistan started to drown. Nowshera District was severely hit. In one village along the river’s edge, a local man claimed that at one point the water level in his home was “rising three feet per hour.”
Newsline had a chance to visit a few areas around Nowshera city. In the photo gallery below, the devastation inflicted by the floods on the village of Akora Khattak is painfully clear. Relief goods coordinated and delivered by NGOs, such as the Omar Asghar Khan Development Foundation (OAKDF), have reached residents there and the distribution process has been remarkably smooth. Several photographs show locals patiently and systematically partaking in the distribution of the relief supplies in partnership with OAKDF. And children seem to be children: hanging around everywhere and observing everything, even as relief and repair work goes on around them.
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