Calls for urgent Pakistan floods aid

Aid agencies in Pakistan are warning a slow response to the country's floods will cost yet more lives, BBC's Orla Guerin reports.

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Aid agencies in Pakistan are warning a slow response to the country's floods will cost yet more lives.

More than 300 people have already died, with seven million facing severe hardship becaue of the disaster.

The Pakistan Air Force has now begun dropping aid in the worst affected province, Sindh, where many people still don't have access to food, water, shelter or health care.


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