‘Better off dead’: Makeshift shelters offer little comfort to Pakistan flood victims

With more than 30 million people affected by devastating floods across Pakistan, makeshift relief camps have sprung up in schools, on motorways and in military bases. But with conditions in the camps often overcrowded and dirty and with little access to food or clean water, some say they would have been better off being among the flood’s victims.

Sep 1, 2022 - 07:07
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‘Better off dead’: Makeshift shelters offer little comfort to Pakistan flood victims
With more than 30 million people affected by devastating floods across Pakistan, makeshift relief camps have sprung up in schools, on motorways and in military bases. But with conditions in the camps often overcrowded and dirty and with little access to food or clean water, some say they would have been better off being among the flood’s victims.