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Aid agencies assess Pakistan's flood-hit areas

A joint team from the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the World Bank, with support from the UN and wider humanitarian community, is to begin a needs assessment in Pakistan's flood-hit provinces of Balochistan and Sindh today, 24 July.

24 Jul 2007

The area was devastated in late June by cyclone Yemyin, leaving hundreds of thousands homeless and almost 300 dead.

“We are looking at long-term reconstruction and rehabilitation needs,” Peter Fedon, ADB mission country director, told IRIN in the capital, Islamabad, on 23 July.

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