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Pakistani flood affected victims travel on rescue vehicles provided by United Arab Emirates (UAE) as they evacuate the Sujawal in southern Sindh province, on August 30, 2010. A torrent of water threatening to deluge a city in flood-hit Pakistan has begun to recede, officials said, as emergency workers plugged a breach in defences against the swollen Indus river. Pakistani troops and workers were on a 'war footing' over the weekend battling to save the southern city of Thatta after most of the 300,000 population fled the advancing waters.
