inp.polri.go.id - Satellite images show severe flooding in Pakistan causing parts of Sindh Province to become a 100-square-kilometre lake. In this image taken by NASA's MODIS satellite sensor on August 28, heavy rains and the overflowing Indus River have submerged parts of Sindh Province.
As reported by CNN, in the center of the satellite image, a dark blue area shows the overflow of the Indus River. The overflowing rivers and heavy rains in the area flooded 100 km of farmland into a giant lake.
When compared to the satellite image of the previous year, the area is filled with green, and only a slight blue line appears. The thin line symbolizes the flow of water.
One of the factors causing flooding in Pakistan was heavy rain.
In the provinces of Sindh and Balochistan, rainfall was 500 percent more than average. As a result of this phenomenon, the two provinces were hit by floods that drowned the villages and agricultural fields. Pakistan's Minister of Climate Change, Sherry Rehman, even said that some areas of his country looked like "little oceans," Sunday (28/08/2022).
He also said maybe a quarter or a third of Pakistan's land would be submerged due to the phenomenon. Meanwhile, Pakistan's Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari claimed to have visited Sindh Province, also seeing the 'chaos' in the area due to flooding.
"There is very little dry land that we can find. The scale of this tragedy affects around 33 million people, which is more than the population in Sri Lanka or Australia," Zardari said in an interview with CNN, Tuesday (30/08/2022).