Islamabad , Pakistan ( CNN ) -- Floods resulting from monsoon rains have killed 422 people and left nearly 3,000 injured across Pakistan , a disaster agency spokesman said Saturday . Some 350,000 people have been forced from their homes and another 4.7 million people affected by the flooding since August 22 , Ahmed Kamal of the National Disaster Management Authority said . More than 15,000 villages have been affected and many houses destroyed or damaged in the past five weeks , he said . Pakistan has suffered a series of devastating inundations , affecting millions of people , in recent years . Pakistan , India hit by deadly flooding . Flooding last year killed 470 people and impacted 9.1 million others , Kamal said . In the worst-affected area of Sindh province , in southeastern Pakistan , the waters submerged more than 4.5 million acres of farming land , damaging an estimated 80 % of cash crops . Many in the country were at that point barely recovering from massive and deadly flooding in August 2010 , which left a fifth of the country submerged by water , according to the National Disaster Management Authority . Those floods lasted for weeks , affecting more than 20 million people and leaving 1,985 people dead , Kamal said . Much of the land inundated in 2010 was in Punjab province , Pakistan 's breadbasket , where many people live off the soil and their livestock . Great hardship followed for millions in the wake of the flooding . Journalist Nasir Habib contributed to this report .
Flooding in Pakistan has left more than 420 people dead and nearly 3,000 injured , official says . The floods , which have also displaced some 350,000 people , follow monsoon rains . Pakistan was also hit by devastating floods last year and in 2010 .