One million people displaced in just 48 hours

PAKISTAN ordered 300,000 people to evacuate a southern city after waters breached its defences as the United Nations warned yesterday the country’s worst humanitarian crisis was deepening.

For nearly a month, torrential monsoon rain has triggered massive floods steadily moving from north to south, affecting a fifth of the volatile country – an area roughly the size of England – and 17 million people.

The floods have swept south and the United Nations estimated that around one million people had been displaced in the province of Sindh in the last 48 hours where rising waters threatened a string of major towns.