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Pakistan floods kill at least 300
Record rainfall in Pakistan has unleashed floods and landslides, killing at least 300 people.
The country's northwest has been hardest hit by the severe monsoon rain -- the heaviest in 35 years.
Local anti-disaster officials say 400,000 people have been displaced as houses have been washed away.
In the northwestern city of Peshawar, residents and livestock were engulfed in torrents of water from a flooded river.
Local TV footage shows an elderly man clinging to a fence and calling for help.
Rescue work is being hampered by damage to roads and bridges, while bad weather is preventing helicopters from operating.
Pakistani weather authorities are warning the rainfall may further intensify in the disaster-hit areas.
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