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Swat floods leave ‘doomed orphans’

AFP , NOWSHEHRA, PAKISTAN

Twenty-five-year-old Bushra Humayun, a laborer’s wife, said she had given birth to twins in the camp, adding to her six other children.

She recalled losing her house in the flood and wading up to her neck through water while pregnant to reach the camp, 3.2km away.

“I’m not getting enough food to feed my two infants and they’re getting weak as they remain underfed,” Humayun said, sweat dripping down her face.

Her 12-year-old son Haroon had stomach pain and mosquito bites all over his arms and face. Life in the camp is their only prospect for the foreseeable future.

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