Pakistan floods: Two million hit by disease in Sindh
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| The continued rainfall has added to the threat caused by water-borne diseases |
More than two million people in Pakistan are suffering from flood-related diseases following torrential rain in Sindh province, officials say.
More than 7,000 people are being treated for snake bites.
Aid agencies estimate that six million people have been affected by the floods and that cases of malaria and diarrhoea are increasing.
The UN's refugee agency says that the flooding is so bad that some areas will remain submerged for six months.
However the BBC's M Ilyas Khan in Pakistan says that the situation in the southern port city of Karachi is showing some sign of limping back to normal after three days of heavy downpours.
Our correspondent says that some schools whose premises were not flooded have managed to reopen after being closed for two days.
'Very serious'
But flooding elsewhere in the southern province of Sindh continues to give cause for...
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