Aid flows into flood-ravaged Pakistan
Posted August 18, 2010 1:20 pm.
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Foreign aid began flowing on Wednesday to the 20-million victims of floods in Pakistan, but thousands continue to wait for the most basic necessities. They have remained without food or shelter as weather forecasts signaled there may be some let-up.
Monsoon systems were weakening after three weeks of torrential rains.
The flooding has killed about 1,500 people in the country’s worst natural disaster, with survivors hitting out at the government’s slow response.
The floods wiped out villages, farmland and infrastructure, and OCHA, the United Nations’ aid coordination body, said that more than 650,000 homeless families were still without basic shelter.
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