Save the Children deployed its rapid response team to the worst-affected and hardest to reach communities in Pakistan's Swat Valley, where record-breaking monsoon rains have triggered deadly floods and mudslides. The team had to navigate the rushing waters using rafts linked to ropes and pulleys in order to distribute temporary shelters and supplies to stranded children and their families. The Information Minister of the worst affected province of Khyber Pakthunkhwa, Mian Ifthikar Hussain, estimates 1,500 have been killed by the floods nationwide... 

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