Monsoon flooding makes life miserable for residents of Hyderabad in Pakistan

Record ID: 1685961

  • Title: Monsoon flooding makes life miserable for residents of Hyderabad in Pakistan
  • Date: 24th August 2022
  • Summary: HYDERABAD, PAKISTAN (AUGUST 23, 2022) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF PEOPLE WALKING IN FLOODED STREET VARIOUS OF CAR DRIVING THROUGH FLOODED STREET FLOODED STREET FAMILY SITTING ON ELEVATED AREA OF THEIR HOME, SURROUNDED BY FLOOD WATER DEBRIS I HOME VARIOUS OF FLOOD WATER IN HOME / CLOTHE HANGING OVER WIRE VARIOUS OF PEOPLE USING MAKE-SHIFT RAFTS VARIOUS OF FLOODED STREET FAMILY SITTING ON STEPS TO THEIR HOME VARIOUS OF MAN SITTING ON LEDGE OF SHOP, SURROUNDED BY FLOOD WATER RAIN FALLING ON FLOODED STREET (SOUNDBITE) (Urdu) UNIDENTIFIED LOCAL RESIDENT SAYING: "It has been a month now that about four feet of water is standing here. No one is here to flush it out; the administration is not providing any help. Food is a worry for us. Sometimes, someone gives out food for one time (in a day) and we eat that. We can not go to bazar. We don’t have water to drink. My wife and children have fallen sick. I have got this numbness and wounds at my feet because of going into this water. We are worried, worried about food and (drinking) water. It has become difficult for us to save our households.” FLOODED WATER CHILDREN COMING OUT OF THEIR HOME / RUBBISH FLOATING IN WATER SURROUNDING HOME MAN SHOWING FLOODED HOME WOMAN WADING THROUGH FLOOD WATER WOMAN SHOWING SAGGING LEAKING ROOF IN HOME (SOUNDBITE) (Urdu) UNIDENTIFIED LOCAL WOMAN SAYING: “The situation is that our entire house and household are submerged in water. I have a hut, a mud house, the roof of which has totally collapsed as you have seen it. Our households are floating in water. This water has produced lot of insects, even snakes that have bitten two, three children. They are suffering from wounds and fever. There are no medicines available to us here. Please help us so that we can get out of this hardship.” FAMILY SITTING IN BACK OF TRUCK WITH PLASTIC SHEET OVER IT FAMILY SITTING UNDER PLASTIC SHEET VARIOUS OF CHILD'S LEG WITH WOUND ON IT CARS IN FLOODED STREET FLOODED STREET VARIOUS OF VEHICLES DRIVING THROUGH FLOOD WATER
  • Embargoed: 7th September 2022 12:59
  • Keywords: Hyderabad Pakistan Sindh children damaged homes falling ill flood flooded homes flooded streets
  • Location: HYDERABAD, PAKISTAN
  • City: HYDERABAD, PAKISTAN
  • Country: Pakistan
  • Topics: Asia / Pacific,Disaster/Accidents,Floods
  • Reuters ID: LVA001026424082022RP1
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text: Fresh spell of rain in parts of Pakistan’s southern Sindh province have added to woes of residents of Hyderabad, province’s second largest city, already flooded with accumulated rain water, especially in the low-lying areas on Tuesday (August 23).
    The flooding has caused suspension of business, trade and commercial activities in major markets and bazaars at low lying areas of Hyderabad.
    Pakistan has urged the international community for assistance in the relief efforts, as it is unable to cope with the relief and rehabilitation caused by massive floods triggered by torrential rains killing over 800 people since last month, officials said.
    In rural Sindh large all agricultural canals have overflowed submerging villages and farmlands, as people complain that they have not received any assistance from the government.
    July's national rainfall was almost 200% above average, Sardar Sarfaraz, a senior official at the metrological office told Reuters on Wednesday (August 24), making it the wettest July since 1961.
    According to United Nations Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), heavy monsoon rainfall and floods have affected some 2.3 million people in Pakistan since mid-June, destroying at least 95,350 houses and damaging some 224,100 more.
    Sindh and Balochistan are the two most affected provinces in terms of human and infrastructural impact.
    Over 504,000 livestock have been killed, nearly all of them in Balochistan Province, while damages to nearly 3,000 km of roads and 129 bridges have impeded access across flood-affected areas.
    (Production: Waseem Khan, Afiq Satikin, Shahabuddin Shahab, Sophia Soo)
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