Pakistan floods caused by 'monsoon on steroids,' says UN chief in urgent appeal

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Karachi, Pakistan (CNN)UN Secretary General António Guterres on Tuesday warned that the world is "sleepwalking" into environmental destruction, as he launched a flash $160 million appeal for flood-ravaged Pakistan.

More than 1,100 people have been killed and 33 million others impacted in one of the country's worst monsoon seasons in over a decade.

 

"The Pakistani people are facing a monsoon on steroids -- the relentless impact of epochal levels of rain and flooding," Guterres said during the appeal's launch.

 

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