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Satellite images reveal nearly 100-km-wide inland lake formed during deadly flooding in Pakistan

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Pakistan has left death and destruction in a country that is already going through one of its worst economic crises to date.

In satellite images showing the before and aftermath of flooding in Pakistan, the landscape looks completely transformed. Operational Land Imagers aboard NASA’s Landsat 8 and Landsat 9 satellites took images of Pakistan on August 4 and August 28.

The imaging concentrates on the areas which received some of the heaviest flooding damage, along the Indus River in the provinces of Punjab, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Balochistan, and Sindh, according to NASA’s Earth Observatory.

What would normally be relatively dry land bordering the river has now turned into a nearly 100-kilometer-wide lake, according to satellite images.

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