‘We’d Never Seen This Much Water’ – Pakistan Flood Survivors

Months on from devastating floods in Pakistan, millions of people remain homeless, roads are destroyed and tens of thousands of schools and hospitals lie in ruins.

Eko Hot Blog reports that at the UN COP27 summit, the country’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif called on Western nations to offer compensation to poorer, vulnerable countries like his, which bear the brunt of climate change.

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Pakistan’s government says the figure for losses and rebuilding now stands at more than $30bn.

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But the human cost is far higher – more than 1,700 people died in the floods and two million homes were damaged or destroyed. Those people who survived are living in endless uncertainty and despair.

SOURCE: BBC

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