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Four million children living near life-threatening floodwaters in Pakistan, Unicef warns
Women salvage whatever they can in the Qambar Shahdadkot district of Sindh province, of Pakistan, Tuesday, September 6 2022

AROUND four million children in Pakistan still live near potentially life-threatening floodwaters, according to the United Nations Children’s Fund (Unicef).

It is now more than four months sincew monsoon rains washed away their homes and villages.

The children face skyrocketing rates of acute respiratory infections, made worse by the presence of contaminated and stagnant pools of water, Unicef said on Sunday evening.

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