A prior attempt to drain the lake to stem the overflow had failed to adequately reduce water levels.
Pakistan's biggest lake, Manchar Lake, is on the verge of bursting its banks and flooding surrounding areas
Water levels in Manchar Lake, in the southeastern Sindh province, had risen to dangerously high levels after days of record monsoon rains.But on Monday, the province's minister for irrigation told Reuters the water level of the lake had "not come down". Floods in Pakistan have affected some 33 million people and killed at least 1,314, including 458 children, Pakistan's National Disaster Management Agency said.On Sunday, officials breached the lake after it had flooded two rural towns, in hopes that it would prevent it from further bursting its banks and inundating more densely-populated areas.
Pakistan is facing one of its worst climate-induced natural disasters in years, as record torrential rainfall and melting glaciers in the country's northern mountains have caused devastating floods and submerged almost a third of its territory underwater.
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