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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Zofeen T Ebrahim in Karachi

‘Just a pile of mud’: Pakistani floods force family to rebuild home again

People wade through nearly waist-high water as others stand outside their mud brick homes
Villagers in Shikarpur, Sindh province, amid the devastation left by monsoon rains that have submerged a third of Pakistan and killed at least 1,100 people. Photograph: Asif Hassan/AFP/Getty

Ghulam Kubra and her family escaped from their home 30 minutes before the roof collapsed. Fifteen days ago, the mother of four watched in despair as her one-room mud house crumbled. “It rained for two consecutive days non-stop,” she says.

“I could see the cracks in one of the walls, followed by a big gaping hole as rain lashed on it mercilessly,” says Kubra, 32, from Jalal Thebo village, in Tando Allah Yar district, Sindh province.

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