Several villages hit by flood water in Pakistan’s Punjab province

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Several villages in Pakistan’s Kasur district, in the central province of Punjab, were inundated on Saturday (Aug 23) as rising floodwaters forced rescuers to move residents and livestock to safer areas.  WATCH MORE: https://thestartv.com/c/news SUBSCRIBE: https://cutt.ly/TheStar LIKE: https://fb.com/TheStarOnline

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00:00Several villages in Pakistan's Kasur district, in the central province of Punjab, were inundated

00:07on Saturday as rising floodwaters forced rescuers to move residents and livestock to safer areas.

00:14The Provincial Development Authority issued warnings urging residents in low-lying riverbeds

00:19to move, but many villagers said they had nowhere else to go.

00:30It is important that, of course, when the water came in, it would be very low, as it was

00:34the first people who were in the middle of the river, as they were in the north or the

00:39river, the river, the river, the river, the river.

00:43If the river came in, we would go back to the river.

00:46Where are you from?

00:47Where are you from?

00:48Where are you from?

00:50No, the river, the river or the river.

00:53There are no further people.

00:55Rescuers said they had successfully moved

01:23villagers and their animals to higher ground.

01:50Nationwide, floods have killed 785 people since late June, and authorities warn of two more

01:56heavy rain spells before 10 September.

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