Flood-hit Pakistan bids to stop its largest lake from overflowing
The United Nations has warned that the humanitarian situation in Pakistan could worsen as authorities struggle to stop the collapse of the country's largest lake amid unprecedented flooding that has inundated a third of the South Asian country. Officials have tried to lower the water level by widening a gap in Lake Mansar in southern Sindh province, but have so far been unsuccessful. "We have widened the front gap in Manjar to reduce the rise in water levels," provincial irrigation minister Jam Khan Shuro told Reuters. Officials said 100,000 people have already been relocated to prevent the lake from overflowing, and hundreds of thousands more could be affected if it overflows its banks. Akbar Leshari, one of the residents of the lake, said in a telephone conversation: "After the first breach of the lake on Sunday, "after the breach in Manjar, the water started flowing, at first it stagnated." Local government official Morteza Shah said on Tuesday that peo