Villagers brave snakes and hunger to protect land in flooded Pakistan

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Without formal property deeds, many residents are worried that if they take off opportunists will seize their land. Read more at straitstimes.com.

KARIM BAKHSH, PAKISTAN - The southern Pakistan village of Karim Bakhsh is almost entirely under muddy water after- hardly any stable buildings are left for shelter, the wheat silos are empty and venomous snakes are a constant threat.

"We had ownership papers from the British colonial government," Mr Intizar Ahmed, a 55-year-old farmer, told AFP on Wednesday while standing on an elevated patch of land near his mostly submerged homestead in Sindh province. Mr Mohammad and others were scrambling to find food not just for themselves, but for their animals too.

The village has been besieged by murky floodwaters extending for more than a kilometre in some spots.

 

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