'On June 14, immense thunderous waves crashed into the city of Sindh and further regions, disintegrating homes in chunks, abolishing the lives of 1,678 people and including 555 children adding to 12,860 injured.'
Since then immense volumes of water have battered and destroyed the city. The water reached as far as the eye can discern, submerging villages, roads and bridges. One-third of the country was underwater, no dry land was distinguished to pump out water. Communities have been cut out with no food and drinking water and crops have been wiped out, including 45% of Pakistan's cotton. The minister of Pakistan affirms it will take 10 million dollars to rebuild the nation.
“We lost our houses, we lost our buffalo, we want tents and financial support from the government. Our children are sick and we are drinking dirty water” -Victim of the flood
The atrocious scarcity of food engendered appalling outbreaks of illnesses and increased diseases particularly, gastroenteritis skin diseases and malaria predominantly among children.
The Indus river that flows along the Himalayas into the Arabian sea is prone to flooding in July and August, but this is unprecedented, reasoning, rising temperatures due to climate change. Pakistan is an accommodation to more than 7,000 glaciers and the rising of global warming has increased in forming lakes. 3,000 melted beforehand and 33 inclined to burst.
Pakistan declared a state of emergency and asked for international help. But meanwhile, people are yet suffering from the destruction of their homes.