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Pakistan floods: monsoons bring more misery to millions - in pictures

Floods in Pakistan: monsoons bring more misery
Children displaced by recent floods wade through Mirpurkhas, Pakistan. Torrential monsoon rains have reportedly killed more than 200 people and left 300,000 homeless
Photograph: Warrick Page/Getty Images for UNICEF
Floods in Pakistan: monsoons bring more misery
A man walks through a flooded village. The rains in Sindh province, where some towns have had as much rain in a day as they usually do in a year, are the worst in 300 years Photograph: Warrick Page/Getty Images for Unicef
Floods in Pakistan: monsoons bring more misery
A young boy takes shelter from rising flood waters in a classroom in Badin. Nearly 1m houses have been damaged or destroyed and around 200,000 people in the region are living in tents or makeshift camps in schools and government buildings Photograph: Warrick Page/Getty Images for Unicef
Floods in Pakistan: monsoons bring more misery
A family carries their possessions away from their flooded village in Badin. Further thunderstorms and heavy rain are forecast in Sindh, eastern Balochistan, Punjab and Kashmir, raising fears that a further 100,000 people may be displaced Photograph: Warrick Page/Getty Images for Unicef
Floods in Pakistan: monsoons bring more misery
A man and a teenage boy haul livestock through rising flood waters in Mirpurkhas. Pakistan's prime minister has cancelled a trip to the UN to co-ordinate relief efforts Photograph: Warrick Page/Getty Images for Unicef
Floods in Pakistan: monsoons bring more misery
A man carries a child across flood waters in Digri. David Wright, Save the Children's Pakistan country director, says the situation is 'desperately serious': 'The lives of children in Sindh are at risk from both malaria and new flood waters contaminated by the sewage from several major towns. Many children in Sindh are already weak and malnourished - malaria or waterborne diseases could kill them within days' Photograph: Warrick Page/Getty Images for Unicef
Floods in Pakistan: monsoons bring more misery
A Hyderabad family transports their possessions. 'These floods have inflicted more misery on communities devastated by flooding only a year ago,' says Habib Malik, of Islamic Relief. 'Some were still living in temporary shelter when the latest floods came'
Photograph: Warrick Page/Getty Images for UNICEF
Floods in Pakistan: monsoons bring more misery
A man tries to fix his car, which was damaged when flood waters swept through Digri. The British Red Cross says it was prepared for the floods and had pre-positioned £1.7m worth of immediate relief supplies, such as tents, throughout the region
Photograph: Warrick Page/Getty Images for UNICEF
Floods in Pakistan: monsoons bring more misery
Flood-displaced families wait to board a truck to take them to higher ground in Khoski. Temporary relief camps have offered 300,000 people respite from the flood waters, but overcrowded and unsanitary conditions mean the risk of disease spreading is high
Photograph: Warrick Page/Getty Images for UNICEF
Floods in Pakistan: monsoons bring more misery
Refugee camps for people displaced by the floods line a Badin roadside, the only raised, dry ground available. Sanitation facilities are scarce, as is safe drinking water
Photograph: Warrick Page/Getty Images for UNICEF
Floods in Pakistan: monsoons bring more misery
A displaced family sits on a charpoy in a makeshift refugee camp in Benazirabad. Parents are struggling to feed their children and find materials for temporary shelters
Photograph: Warrick Page/Getty Images for UNICEF
Floods in Pakistan: monsoons bring more misery
Women displaced by floods use a water pump next to rising waters in Fatehpur. Some areas are under 5ft of water, and a major sewage canal is at risk of bursting its banks
Photograph: Warrick Page/Getty Images for UNICEF
Floods in Pakistan: monsoons bring more misery
Children gather outside a camp for people affected by the floods in Badin
Photograph: Warrick Page/Getty Images for UN
Floods in Pakistan: monsoons bring more misery
In Benazirabad, a young girl displaced by the flood waters sleeps on a charpoy Photograph: Warrick Page/Getty Images for Unicef
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