Around 100,000 people have been evacuated from flooded villages in Pakistan's Punjab Province, emergency services said on August 23. Several hundred villages and thousands of acres of cropland in the central province were inundated when the Sutlej river burst its banks on August 20. Emergency services have been working to evacuate residents and livestock to higher ground. The head of Punjab's government, Mohsin Naqvi, said monsoon rains had prompted authorities in India to release excess reservoir water into the Sutlej river, causing flooding downstream on the Pakistani side of the border.
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