Islamabad, Sept. 5 -- Flash floods caused by high water levels in rivers and breach of river embankments have affected over 4 million people directly by displacing them across Pakistan's eastern Punjab province, the Provincial Disaster Management Authority (PDMA) said on Friday.
An official from the PDMA told Xinhua that high floods in the Ravi, Sutlej, and Chenab rivers have been wreaking havoc across Punjab, the country's most populous province, with a population of over 127 million.
The PDMA said that hundreds of villages were submerged during the last 24 hours, increasing the tally to over 4,000 villages and inundating crops covering hundreds of thousands of acres.
According to PDMA data, over 2 million people trapped in the floods w...