‘It’s just a pile of mud and bricks’: the devastating cost of Pakistan’s floods

As well as losing their livestock and crops, many villagers face rebuilding homes again after floods destroyed them in 2010

Ghulam Kubra and her family escaped from their home 30 minutes before the roof collapsed. Fifteen days ago, the mother of four watched in despair as her one-room mud house crumbled. “It rained for two consecutive days non-stop,” she says.

“I could see the cracks in one of the walls, followed by a big gaping hole as rain lashed on it mercilessly,” says Kubra, 32, from Jalal Thebo village, in Tando Allah Yar district, Sindh province.

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