PAKISTAN / BALOCHISTAN DISPLACED UPDATE

Pakistan's government estimates over one million people are on the move in Sindh and Balochistan in search of safety. The waters of the river Sindh keep on rising, causing some of the worst flash floods the region has ever seen. UNHCR

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:01:40
• Production Date: 23 August 2010
• Asset Language: Original
• Corporate Name: UNITED NATIONS HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR REFUGEES - UNHCR
• Subject Topical: HUMANITARIAN RELIEF; REFUGEES; DISPLACED PERSONS; DISASTER PREVENTION; DISASTER PREPAREDNESS; DISASTER RELIEF
• Geographic Subject: PAKISTAN
• MAMS Id: U100823a

Description

STORY: PAKISTAN / BALOCHISTAN DISPLACED UPDATE
TRT: 1.40
SOURCE: UNHCR
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: URDU / SINDHI / ENGLISH / NATS

DATELINE: 18, 19 AUGUST 2010, BALOCHISTAN, PAKISTAN

18, 19 AUGUST 2010, DERA ALLAYAR, BALOCHISTAN, PAKISTAN

1. Various shots, aerial views of flooding

18, 19 AUGUST 2010, DERA ALLAYAR, BALOCHISTAN, PAKISTAN

2. Tracking shot, flooded waters
3. Various shots, telephone exchange under water
4. Various shots, men carrying mattresses

18, 19 AUGUST 2010, DERA ALLAYAR, BALOCHISTAN, PAKISTAN

5. Wide shot, people walking along roadside
6. Wide shot, woman walking along the road
7. Med shot, child looking ahead
8. Med shot, family sitting down on a street
9. Close up, bread
10. Med shot, family eating bread

18, 19 AUGUST 2010, WESTERN BYPASS QUETTA, BALOCHISTAN, PAKISTAN

11. SOUNDBITE (Urdu) Hazar Khan, flood victim:
“We were given three hours to evacuate. I could only take my family and children and left with nothing else.”
12. Tilt, up, from woman in bed to other woman fanning the latter
13. Wide shot, IDPs
14. Close up, IDP child eating
15. Various shot, IDPs in camp
16. SOUNDBITE (English) Aymal Kakar UNHCR:
“These IDPs were in need of immediate shelter, food, health and hygiene and wash facilities.”
17. Pan left, tents in camp
18. Various shots, UNHCR trucks being loading with items
19. Med shot, tents
20. Med shot, woman washing hands
21. SOUNDBITE (Sindhi) Mai Jamiyatey, flood victim:
“All our possessions have been drowned in the water. The water cam and we didn’t have a chance to pick anything. Our house is also destroyed.”

18, 19 AUGUST 2010, DERA ALLAYAR, BALOCHISTAN, PAKISTAN

22. Med shot, kids along the road
23. Med shot, family under a makeshift tent

18, 19 AUGUST 2010, WESTERN BYPASS QUETTA, BALOCHISTAN, PAKISTAN

24. Young girl IDP in Camp

Storyline

The waters of the river Sindh keep rising causing some of the worst flash floods the region has ever seen.

People salvage what they can but it is very little.

The first torrential rains came in mid July. And then in mid-August an evacuation warning was issued in the Pakistani provinces of Sindh and Balochistan resulting in a mass exodus.

According to government estimates, over a million people are on the move trying to finding safety.

SOUNDBITE (Urdu) Hazar Khan, flood victim:
“We were given three hours to evacuate. I could only take my family and children and left with nothing else.”

Thousands are living out in the open, huddled under sheets, desperate to escape the elements. Most are badly in need of basic necessities.

SOUNDBITE (English) Aymal Kakar UNHCR official:
“These IDPs were in need of immediate shelter, food, health and hygiene and wash facilities.”

Closer to Quetta, the government has set up seven IDP camps. UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) has provided 200 family kits, including tents, a small step for people who have nothing to go back to.

SOUNDBITE (Sindhi) Mai Jamiyatey, flood Victim:
“All our possessions have been drowned in the water. The water cam and we didn’t have a chance to pick anything. Our house is also destroyed.”

Efforts are underway to try to reach more flood victims in this region, especially those without any shelter, but the fear is that the continuing rains will force these people to move again.