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The United Nations has announced that the damage caused by flooding in Pakistan has eclipsed that of the 2004 tsunami.
AP Photo/K.M. Chaudary
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On Monday, the UN said that scale of devastation caused by the Pakistani floods have eclipsed that of the 2004 tsunami.
A spokesman for the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said the 13.8 million affected outstripped the more than three million hit by the 2005 Pakistani earthquake, five million in the 2004 tsunami and the three million affected by the Haiti earthquake in January this year.
The United Nations estimates that 1,600 people have died in Pakistan's floods that up to 500,000 people are homeless.
Via: Yahoo
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Pakistan flood İAP Photo/K.M. Chaudary
Pakistan earthquake 2005 İAP Photo/Richard Vogel
2004 Tsunami İGetty Images
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