'It is beyond bleak': Pakistan floods affected 16m children, says Unicef

Devastating conditions were triggered by torrential rains and heavy monsoon that have so far killed more than 1,500 peopleAll four of Haliman's daughters have fallen sick after she left her flood-ravaged house in her village in Qambar Shahdadkot district in the Sindh province of Pakistan. Two of her daughters have a recurring fever and two are suffering from skin diseases."I have never seen such diseases. The skin on my eldest daughter's feet is peeling off," said Haliman, sitting on a charpoy in a girls' college in Larkana, where she had sought refuge along with a hundred others. "It is because of the floods and she waded through the flood water with me for hours. It is not only her feet, but her back, thighs and neck have bumpy rashes." Continue reading...