Hakimullah Khan, a resident of Charsadda town, said Sunday that he hasn’t received any help in tracking down his missing wife and three children.

“The flood has devastated us all, and I don’t know where my family has gone,” said Hakimullah Khan, a resident of Charsadda town who complained the government has not helped him search for his missing wife and three children.

“Water is all around and there is no help in sight,” said Khan.

Sehar Ali Shah, who returned to a house filled with water in Nowshera city, complained the government didn’t provide evacuees a shelter where they could stay until flood waters recede.

Sehar Ali Shah who was rescued by the government complained that authorities didn’t provide shelter that would allow him to stay until the flood waters receded.

“My son drowned, but I don’t see the government taking care of flood victims,” said Shah after returning to his half-submerged house in the city of Nowshera. “The government has not managed an alternate place to shift us.”

The government has deployed more than 30,000 army troops to help with the rescue and relief effort. Authorities had evacuated 19,000 trapped people by Saturday night.

But the UN estimated that some 1 million people nationwide were affected by the disaster.

Rescue workers struggled on Sunday to save more than 27,000 people still trapped by massive flooding in Pakistan’s northwest that has destroyed thousands of homes, officials said.

The effort has been aided by a slackening of the monsoon rains that have caused the worst flooding in decades in Khyber-Pakhtoonkhwa province. But as flood waters have started to recede, authorities have begun to understand the full scale of the disaster.

“Aerial monitoring is being conducted, and it has shown that whole villages have washed away, animals have drowned and grain storages have washed away,” said Latifur Rehman, spokesman for the Provincial Disaster Management Authority.

“The destruction is massive and devastating.” The death toll from the flooding has risen to over 1,000 people, said Mujahid Khan, the head of rescue services for the Edhi Foundation, a private charity.

The worst hit areas have been the districts of Swat and Shangla, where more than 400 people have died, he said.

The disaster comes as the residents of Swat are still trying to recover from a major battle between the army and the Taleban last spring that caused widespread destruction and drove some 2 million people from their homes. About a million of those people are still displaced.

Authorities have deployed 43 military helicopters and over 100 boats to try to rescue some 27,300 people still trapped by the floods, said Rehman, the disaster management spokesman. At least 115 people are still reported missing in Swat and Shangla, he said.

As rivers swelled in the northwest, people sought ever-shrinking high ground or grasped for trees and fences to avoid getting swept away. Buildings simply crumbled into the raging river in Kalam, a town in the northern part of the Swat Valley, local TV showed.

“All efforts are being used to rescue people stuck in inaccessible areas and all possible help is being provided to affected people,” said Rehman.