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Nearly 1,300 have died since mid-June

Pakistani engineers cut into an embankment for one of the countrys largest lakes on Sunday to release rising waters in the hopes of saving a nearby city and town from flooding as officials predicted more monsoon rain was on the way for the countrys already devastated south.

Authorities in flood-hit Pakistan strategically breached the countrys largest freshwater lake on Sunday, a minister said, displacing up to 100,000 people from their homes but saving more densely

Pakistani engineers have cut into an embankment for one of the country’s largest lakes to release rising waters. They hope to save a nearby city and town from flooding as

Officials warned Sunday that more flooding was expected as Lake Manchar in southern Pakistan swelled from unprecedented monsoon rains that began in mid-June and have killed nearly 1,300 people.

Pakistani engineers are working to release water from one of the country’s largest lakes to protect a nearby city. But other communities are in the path of the diverted waters. Humanitarian needs in Pakistan are already “immense,” officials say.

Manchar Lake, which is used for water storage, had already reached dangerous levels, and the increased pressure posed a threat to surrounding areas in the country's southern Sindh province, Sindh Irrigation Minister Jam Khan Shoro said

The rising waters of Lake Manchar reached dangerous levels and posed a threat to a protective dyke and embankment

Irrigation authorities have administered a cut at Manchhar Lake at Bagh-e-Yousuf point to release the pressure of water. Authorities warned that

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