Pakistan monsoon flooding death toll rises to 1,061

Pakistani villagers try to reach higher ground to escape flooding in Jaffarabad, Sindh province

Pakistani villagers try to reach higher ground to escape flooding in Jaffarabad, Sindh province

The death toll from monsoon flooding in Pakistan since June has reached 1,061, according to figures released Monday by the country's National Disaster Management Authority.

It said 28 people had died in the previous 24 hours, but authorities were still trying to reach cut-off villages in the mountainous north.

Officials say this year's monsoon flooding has affected more than 33 million people -- one in seven Pakistanis -- destroying or badly damaging nearly a million homes.

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