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Over 5 million flood-affected Pakistanis are in desperate need of shelter
Over five million people affected by floods in Pakistan are in desperate need of shelter as flood waters continue to engulf towns and villages bordering the Indus River in southern Sindh.
Pakistani flood victims
According to the government's National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA), more than one million houses have been destroyed or damaged by the floods.
The floods have submerged some 3.2 million hectares of the country's cultivated land and left thousands of farming families destitute and homeless.
Jared Bloch is the spokesman for the International Organization for Migration (IOM) which is coordinating the Shelter Cluster of relief agencies in Pakistan.
"IOM and other relief organizations working in southern Sindh struggling to deliver shelter and other aid to communities that have been cut off by flood waters and damaged roads and bridges. In Thatta district, IOM today completed a distribution of 6,000 plastic sheets, 1,800 blankets and 1,200 jerry cans to provide basic aid to 3000 families."
A breach in the Surjani dyke last week inundated an estimated 1,300 square-kilometres of land in Thatta.
Hundreds of thousands of people are now camped out on higher ground near the city along the Karachi-Hyderabad highway.
Gail Walker, United Nations Radio
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