GENEVA : The United Nations children's agency (UNICEF) said on Friday there was a risk of 'many more' child deaths in Pakistan from disease after floods claimed the lives of around 400. The toll for children, estimated at 416 by national authorities, represents around a third of the total of 1,208 people
GENEVA : The United Nations children's agency said on Friday there was a risk of"many more" child deaths in Pakistan from disease after floods claimed the lives of around 400.
The toll for children, estimated at 416 by national authorities, represents around a third of the total of 1,208 people killed amid record monsoon rains and melting glaciers in northern mountains. "There is now a high risk of water-borne, deadly diseases spreading rapidly - diarrhoea, cholera, dengue, malaria," UNICEF Pakistan Representative Abdullah Fadil told a Geneva press briefing."There is therefore a risk of many more child deaths," he said.
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