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Summary Monsoon rains have killed 136 people in the south of the country.
Hundreds of thousands of acres rice, cotton and sugarcane crops have also been flooded.Sajjad Hayder Shah said Monday 90 of the victims had been killed over the last week, many when their houses collapsed.Last year, southern Pakistan was hit by massive floods that swamped much of the country, killing 2,000 people.Shah says Pakistani soldiers were helping distribute food and other emergency supplies to flood-hit areas.The rains began in early August 12 and have affected some 170,000 acres of agricultural land.
