Muhammad Muzammal

At least 30 people have died and more than 354,000 have been affected by heavy rains and floods in the north Indian state of Punjab. Authorities have declared all of the state's 23 districts flood-hit, after rivers and reservoirs swelled to near-danger levels. Some 20,000 people have been evacuated from low-lying and flood-affected areas, with hundreds of relief camps set up to provide shelter and essential facilities to the affected families. Appealing to the country to "stand by the state", Punjab's Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann said these were the worst floods the state had seen since 1988.