The Punjab government has launched one of its largest evacuation operations in recent years, as floodwaters affected over 1.46 million people across the province, with the Chenab River expected to swell to dangerous levels at Head Trimmu.

Extremely high floods in the Sutlej, Ravi and Chenab rivers have also resulted in the loss of 17 lives.

The province is battling its worst flooding in four decades, which has caused havoc in hundreds of villages and submerged vital grain crops.

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