Around 100,000 people evacuated due to floods in Pakistan

Around 100,000 people have been evacuated from flooded villages in Pakistan's Punjab province, emergency services said on Wednesday.

Several hundred villages and thousands of acres of cropland in the central province were inundated when the Sutlej river burst its banks on Sunday.

Emergency services have been working to evacuate residents and livestock to higher ground.

The Punjab disaster management agency warned that forecasted monsoon rains could exacerbate the flooding in the coming days. 

Pakistan is still struggling to recover from the devastating floods that inundated nearly one-third of the country in 2022, affecting more than 33 million people.