The United States is to provide eighteen more helicopters to help its flood relief efforts in Pakistan The additional aircraft will supplement fifteen US helicopters and three C-130 aircraft already there. Renewed flooding in southern Pakistan has displaced almost one million people in just two days. In Sindh province, 70 per cent of the three lakh residents of the town of Thatta have been forced to flee to safer areas after the Indus river burst its banks. A UN spokeswoman said teams in the south are working around the clock. Further north, floodwaters are starting to recede, revealing the full extent of the damage caused by the disaster that has affected some 17 million people.