She was offered a tent only after it was too late. They were killed by 'colds', she said, after sleeping out in the open. One died on the day AFP visited, the other around two weeks ago at a separate camp.

In a bleak camp south of Dadu, outside the city of Hyderabad, the 35 year-old explained she is in mourning for her twin two-month-old sons. Zahida Mallah has already been tipped over the edge.

Eight million of those require 'urgent medical services', she said. Sindh has been worst-hit by the catastrophic flooding which put a third of Pakistan underwater, displaced eight million, destroyed or damaged two million homes, crippled 1,500 hospitals and clinics and caused an estimated $28 billion in damages.Ĭlimate change minister Sherry Rehman said this week that more than 20 million people are still in need 'with futures that are entirely precarious'. 'Some of our nets are torn now so we are worried,' said Hussain, whose infant son has fallen ill. His brother, who shares this home, has already ventured off the roof to treat his sick children at hospital with borrowed cash. 'The mosquitoes bite a lot and we fall sick,' said the 25-year-old, atop a brickwork compound framing a courtyard awash with putrid, sucking mud. The UN has warned of a 'second wave' of catastrophe, with the risk that deaths from water-borne disease and malnutrition will outstrip the 1,700 drowned and electrocuted in the initial cascade.Īs dusk arrives in Hussain's submerged village in Dadu district of Sindh province, so do the bugs, and the gamble that they will infect his wife and two children. Four months after the start of record monsoon rains linked to climate change, the standing water has curdled into a pestilent soup breeding malaria, cholera and dengue.

From dusk till dawn trilogy torrent