洪水威胁 巴基斯坦南部进行大规模撤离-凯发k8官网

hundreds of thousands of pakistanis have been ordered to ¹ their homes as flood waters threaten several cities in the south of the country.

巴基斯坦南部几个城市受到洪水威胁，几十万巴基斯坦人被迫离开自己的家园。

the flood surge（大浪，巨涌） , after weeks of ⁵ rains, has ⁶（违反，破坏） embankments（路堤） on the indus river, ⁷（淹没，泛滥） villages and swamping（沼泽化，覆没） vast areas of farmland.

parts of pakistan have been described as resembling an inland sea.

after threats from pakistan's taliban, the un is reviewing security for its aid workers ⁸ flood victims.

a us official said ⁹ planned to attack foreigners delivering aid to the millions of people ¹⁰ by the ¹¹ floods.

one taliban spokesman told associated press that the presence of foreign aid workers was "unacceptable".

however, there have been no attacks since the ¹² crisis unfolded.

'pressure increasing'

the un says more than 17 million people have been affected by the floods, and about 1.2 million homes have been destroyed, leaving five million people homeless.

the floods started in the mountainous north and have ¹³ surged south, damaging an estimated 3.2 million hectares（公顷） (7.9 million acres) of farmland - about 14% of pakistan's land under ¹⁴ according to the un's food agency.

the remaining residents of shahdadkot, originally a town of 300,000 people, have been warned to leave as floodwaters approach. many people have already left the town, in northern sindh province.

"shahdadkot is certainly in danger," said sindh official riaz ahmed soomro. "people had built an artificial embankment but the pressure is increasing."

the bbc's chris morris reports from shahdadkot that as a ² nearby widened, a series of fields rapidly filled up, taking on the appearance of an inland sea.

another embankment was breached in the kot almo area of sindh province, forcing thousands of people in the southern thatta district to flee from their homes.

further downstream, about 400,000 people have been told to evacuate the towns of sujawal, mir pur batoro and daro.

"evacuation in those areas is ¹⁵ but we have issued another warning for the remaining people to leave as well," saleh farooqi, director general of the national disaster management agency's sindh office, told the reuters news agency.