submerge
d thousands of villages in a region that has not yet recovered from similar floods last year. Aleem Maqbool reports.
We started out from the city of Hyderabad and spent many hours on the roads that remain passable across rural Sindh. Vehicles now have to
weave
around the thousands of flood victims, who grabbed what they could and headed to the higher ground of the main highways, and for whom surrounded by water, the roads are now home. Very few of them told us they had seen anything of the aid effort. Some said they had been so desperate to
quench
their thirst they'd
resorted to
drinking stagnant floodwaters. It's little wonder that many also talked of children dying of disease.
An aluminium producer in Hungary fined about $650m this week for a giant spill of toxic red sludge has announced it will appeal against the verdict. The Hungarian government says it's doing everything possible to stop MAL alumina from going bankrupt, insisting the fine must be paid. The spill killed 10 people and caused huge environmental damage. The sludge escaped when a chemical waste reservoir was breached.
Reports are coming in of a security lockdown at an airbase in Tucson in the American state of Arizona. A spokeswoman told a local television station that no one was being allowed in or out of the Davis-Monthan Air Force Base due to an unspecified security situation. Details are still coming in.