Aid efforts struggle in flooded Pakistan

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Adrees Latif/Reuters, Catholic News Service

WASHINGTON — Pakistanis faced new dangers posed by disease as emergency response teams and international aid agencies struggled to rush supplies to millions of people forced to flee the country's worst flooding in 80 years.

Jack Byrne, Catholic Relief Services' country representative to Pakistan, said the aid effort has been hampered because bridges and roads have been washed away by monsoon rains and the ensuing floods since late July.

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