Satellite images show: Pakistani farmland is flooded into 100 kilometers wide "inland lake"

Jimu Journalist Li Lili Huang Jiaqi

According to a report on August 31, local time of the United States, the latest satellite image shows that due to floods, the Pakistani India River drowned some areas of the southern Xinde Province of the country, forming a huge "inland lake" about 100 kilometers wide.

Since mid -June, the floods caused by the strong rainfall weather in Pakistan have killed 1162 people, 3,554 were injured, and 33 million were affected.

In the province of Xinde and Baluchi, the rainfall is 500%higher than the average level, and a large number of villages and farmland are flooded.

August 28th Satellite Image dark blue area Show the flood of the Indian River (Picture Source: American Cable TV News Network)

On August 28, images taken by the National Aeronautics and Space Agency (NASA) Modis satellite sensor showed that a large dark blue area showed the flood of the Indian River, drowned the area of ​​about 100 kilometers wide in the province of faith. A huge inland lake.

Satellite images in the same area last year (picture source: Cable TV News Network)

Compared with photos taken by the same satellite sensor at the same date last year, this year's satellite photos show that Pakistan's current record of the severity of the flooding scale.

According to the Pakistanian meteorological department, this year's monsoon weather has the strongest rainfall since the record in 1961.

Although it is expected to have dry weather in most parts of Pakistan in the next few days, experts said that the flood will take a few days to retreat.

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