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The United Nations is continuing efforts to try and help those who have lost
their homes and livelihoods to the flooding in Pakistan.
More than 17 million people are now affected.
"This is a disaster on an unprecedented scale."
John Holmes, Under Secretary General for Humanitarian Affairs
and Emergency Relief Coordinator, said aid operations were continuing.
"Nearly two million people have been reached now with food,
two and a half million people with clean water
and we have distributed so far, in terms of shelter,
more than 115,000 tents."
Despite relief efforts, 800,000 people
remain stranded by miles of floodwater,
and 4.8 million displaced people have no shelter.