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Officials from World Health Organisation tracking potential epidemics; report no unusual incidences.

Heavy rains that began falling late August have affected at least 5.3m people, made 200,000 homeless for second time.

Members of the upper house of parliament have collected over Rs13 million.

More rains are expected in various districts of Sindh in the coming three days.

We do not mourn our dead. They receive no memorials and no tributes. To us they are dead and gone.

Even in disaster, there appears to be no end to the discrimination we have become accustomed to as a part of life.

Floods have destroyed or damaged 1.2 million houses, flooded 4.5 million acres and left 300,000 homeless.

Fresh rains compou­nd miseri­es of surviv­ors in Sindh; meteor­ologis­t terms figure­s ‘51-year record’.

Scheduled castes allege they’re discriminated against at relief camps.

Sugarcane and rice have also been partially destroyed, says Khairpur DCO.