20 million. The number of people in need of shelter, food, and/or emergency care because of the flooding, in Pakistan alone. Four million people are now homeless.
United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon describes the flooding as a "slow-motion tsunami" and notes that the number of people who have been displaced and/or need food or healthcare "is more than the entire population hit by the Indian Ocean tsunami, the Kashmir earthquake, Cyclone Nargis, and the earthquake in Haiti—combined."
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