The United Nations said on Friday that one million people have been displaced by floods, while Pakistani authorities ordered fresh evacuations in the southern province of Sindh. "Over a million people were displaced in the last 48 hours in Sindh," Stacey Winston, public information officer at the UN Office of Coordination for Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA) in Pakistan, told the German Press Agency dpa. The statement came as the water in the Indus River breached a major embankment near Thatta city, forcing authorities to order evacuations. "People from Thatta city and surrounding villages are moving to safe places" since the order was given late Thursday, the district's top civil official, Manzoor Ahmad Sheikh, said. According to Sheikh, 300,000 people were asked to evacuate the threatened areas.
