LAHORE:
School on the roof of his neighbor, Ghulam Bano looks at the remains of his house, immersed in cloudy and bad flooded waters that has wrapped a large part of Punjab.
Bano moved to the city of Shahdara last year, on the outskirts of Lahore, to avoid the contamination of Smog asphyxiation of the second largest city in Pakistan, only for his new beginning to turn it through the furies floods.
“My husband had begun to cough blood and his condition was still getting worse when he hit the smog,” Bano told AFP, walking through the muddy streets.
Pakistan is regularly among the most polluted countries in the world, often the most contaminated megacity between November and February.
“I thought Smog was quite bad, I never thought it could be worse with floods,” he said.
Its impoverished neighborhood is the home of thousands of low houses crowded in narrow streets.
The nearby Ravi Ravi river flooded many of them, forcing dozens of families to take refuge in primary school in a higher field, where doctors treated people for skin infections linked to flood water.
Strongs are predicted during the weekend, including the warnings of greater urban floods in Lahore, which limits with India.
With her prostrated husband of tuberculosis, worsened by the relentless smog, Bano became the only supplier in a home that struggles to breathe, survive and support floods.
“I ate today after two days. There is no clean water to drink. I left my daughter in the house of a relative and I stayed hoping that the water would go back,” he said.
Earth landslides and floods caused by heavier monsoon rains have been killed by more than 800 people throughout the country since June of this year.
