\nIn Shahdadkot, there are chaotic scenes with residents leaving en masse<\/em> in an attempt to reach safe ground.
\nPeople are pushing in all directions, many of them are travelling with carts laden with family members and belongings.
\nThe makeshift 4ft mud barrier, built by the army and volunteers, was the city’s last line of defence and has now been breached in several places.<\/p>\n
Sindh province is now being described as the worst affected
\nJam Saifullah Dharejo, Sindh provincial irrigation minister, said that most people had been escorted to safety, but efforts were under way to help those still stranded. “We are trying to save the city from the unprecedented flood,” he said.<\/p>\n
Some residents say they do not want to leave. The floods, which began last month in Pakistan’s north-west and have since swept south, have killed at least 1,600 people and affected about 20 million. Tens of thousands of people in southern Pakistan are fleeing a threatened flood-surge, three weeks after heavy monsoon rains first hit the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mcccharity.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mcccharity.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mcccharity.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mcccharity.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mcccharity.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=318"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/mcccharity.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1832,"href":"http:\/\/mcccharity.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318\/revisions\/1832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mcccharity.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mcccharity.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mcccharity.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n“This is the place where I earn my bread and butter. I live here and will die here,” Mohammad Jaffar, a shopkeeper, said.
\nMr Dharejo added that the floods did not pose a risk to Hyderabad, the province’s second largest city.
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\nDiarrhoea cases<\/strong>
\nIn Sukkar, a fraction of people are in relief camps – but the vast majority are out in the open, fending for themselves.
\nThe WHO says displaced communities are highly vulnerable to epidemics because of a lack of sanitation and hygiene.
\nThe organisation in its latest report said that over 200,000 people have reported acute diarrhoea, with about the same number suffering acute respiratory problems.
\nMillions of livestock are also at risk, according to the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), which said that at least 200,000 animals had died already as a result of the disaster.<\/p>\n
\nEarlier, the International Monetary Fund said Pakistan faced a “massive economic challenge”.
\nIt is due to begin talks with Pakistani officials in Washington on Monday and said it would help Pakistan review the country’s budget and financial prospects.
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