Worst-ever floods in Pakistan's history has affected around 3.6 million people in Sindh and over 6,00,000 displaced are living in relief camps in the province, a top official said today.
According to statistics obtained by authorities Sindh from different districts, 1,447 relief camps have set up in the province where 610,614 affected are taking refuge.
Director Operations Disaster Management Authority (DMA) Sindh Khair Muhammad Kalhoro said that 3.684237 million people have become victims of the destruction unleashed by the devastating floods in Sindh.
The numbers show that the floods perished 126,216 livestock and ripe crops spreading on a land area of 1.555359 acres. The floods in Pakistan have caused a catastrophic calamity with around 2,000 people killed in the floods in the country.
According to reports issued by the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) and Flood Commission, to date more than 1,513 people have lost their lives in the ongoing flood and rain spell in Pakistan.
Due to inadequate disaster management planning the situation in the relief camps set up in Karachi and on its outskirts has also worsened with thousands said to be deprived of basic facilities.
In another tragic incident to compound matters two women were killed in a stampede in a camp distributing free food and Zakat money.
Police officials said that the two women died when hundreds of poor women scrambled for free food and Zakat money at a camp in Korangi.
The camp was set up for women affected by the floods and to distribute flour and food. Hundreds of women turned up at the camp in a bid to get the bags of flour and money.
However, the situation turned chaotic following a brawl among some of the women. Several women fell unconscious due to suffocation.
They were rushed to Jinnah Hospital, where two of them identified as Malooka and Shamsa, could not survive. Last Ramazan, over a dozen women were killed and several others wounded in a stampede which broke out in a narrow street of Jodia Bazaar in the city.
