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"Nobody can claim this was caused by global warming. On the other hand nobody can claim that it wasn't," Muenchow said
"The mortality rate has doubled," said Andrei Seltsovsky, head of the city's health department. There were usually 360 to 380 deaths a day in the city, but "now that number is about 700".
The full scale of the tragedy engulfing Pakistan is now emerging, with the United Nations saying today that the floods, which have entered their third week, have now affected 13.8 million people.
The Diff animal herders who, by most estimates, have lost more than half of their livestock, say this year’s drought is not only worse than the one in 2005, but the worst in living memory.