BADIN, Pakistan (AP) — Flood victims camped out near inundated fields and crowded hospitals on Monday as authorities and international aid groups struggled to respond to Pakistan's second major bout of flooding in just over a year.
Monsoon rains since early August have killed more than 220 people, damaged or destroyed some 665,000 homes and displaced more than 1.8 million people in the southern Sindh province, according to the government and the United Nations, which Sunday made an emergency appeal for funding.
"First it started to rain, then water gathered here and there and later the floods came," said Mohammad Hashim, who was sitting by the side of a main road in Badin …
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