Disaster Situation

Floods severely struck South Asia where flood affected people are in desperate need of shelter, food, clean water and medicines. In Bangladesh, Pakistan, Nepal and India, the floods has led to 26 million of people affected in which more than 1,900 death and over one million have been displaced. More than 900,000 houses have been damaged and large area of farmland is underwater.

Until now, more than 60% of districts in Bangladesh were struck by the flood with over 9.87 million people affected; over half of the districts with more than 330,000 people affected in Nepal;

Islamabad_(dpa) _ A relentless heatwave in Pakistan has claimed at least 40 more lives, raising the death toll to 232, news reports said Wednesday.

At least 11 people died in blistering heat in Lahore, capital city of central province of Punjab, on Tuesday where a windstorm and drizzle in the evening brought some relief to the people, the English-language daily The News reported.

Temperatures soared to 46 degrees Celsius in southern parts of the province, killing 15 people in the city of Multan. Fourteen more died in other parts of the country.

NEW DELHI, June 12 (Reuters) - More than two dozen people have died over the last 24 hours in a heatwave that has baked northern India, officials and media reports said on Tuesday, taking the death toll over the last one week to more than 100.

The scalding temperatures have also hit large parts of neighbouring Pakistan, killing at least 50 people by Monday.

Most of the dead were homeless people, the elderly and those compelled to work outdoors, hit by sunstroke and dehydration.

But the heatwave's peak had already passed,

Islamabad_(dpa) _ At least 63 more people died Sunday from the effects of Pakistan's record-breaking heat wave, bringing the weekend death toll to around 110, news reports said Monday.

The mercury rose as high as 52 degrees in south-west parts of the country as the hot spell entered its fourth day, also setting a 78-year record in the city of Lahore in the central Punjab province.

Around 50 people died in the province, where the temperature hovered around 49 degrees and prolonged power cuts added to the discomfort, the newspaper The Nation reported on Monday.

ISLAMABAD, Jun 11, 2007 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- Scorching heat killed another 63 people on Saturday in Pakistan as the country remained in the grip of severe heatwave with mercury level touching record heights in a number of cities, newspapers said Monday.

In Lahore, the capital of east province Punjab, the maximum temperature remained at the record highest level, 48 degrees Celsius, on the second consecutive day on Sunday, according to The Nation newspaper.

Sibbi, a district in southwest province Baluchistan, remained the hottest place in the country where maximum temperature