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After the government declared an emergency to address monsoon flooding that it claimed had harmed more than four million people, heavy rain pelted regions of Pakistan on Friday.

The Indian subcontinent's yearly monsoon is necessary for irrigating crops and replenishing lakes and dams, but it also brings a wave of devastation each year.

The monsoon rains that started in June have been blamed for killing more than 900 people this year, according to the National Disaster Management Agency (NDMA), including 34 in the past day.

Officials claim that this year's floods are equivalent to those in 2010, which were the worst on record and resulted in over 2,000 fatalities and submerged about a fifth of the nation.