Monsoon rains, flooding in Pakistan kill 75 people in one day, death toll hits more than 1,000

ABC News:

Seventy-five people have died and 59 have been injured in Pakistan over the last 24 hours due to severe weather, further devastating a country that’s experiencing historic rain and flooding, according to the country’s National Disaster Management Authority.

About one-third of Pakistan is under water, the country’s federal minister for climate change, Sherry Rehman, wrote on Twitter Monday, saying in an interview that Pakistan is experiencing a “climate catastrophe.”

Rehman said that Padidan, in Pakistan’s Sindh Province, received an “unheard of” nearly 70 inches of rain in one day.