Pakistani police fired tear gas to disperse a protest by some of the 1.1 million victims of a cyclone Friday, as fresh storms hit India and flooded villages awaiting help in Afghanistan. About 500 people have now been killed by more than a week of severe weather that has swept across the coastlines, plains and mountains of South Asia with the approach of the annual summer monsoon.
In Pakistan, 1,000 protesters smashed up the mayor's office in the largely-submerged southwestern town of Turbat, saying they had received no relief goods since tropical Cyclone Yemyin struck on Tuesday.
Six people were wounded including the local police chief when police launched tear gas shells and fired live bullets in the air, an AFP photographer said. "Our homes have been destroyed, there has been no drinking water and no food for the last four days. There is water everywhere," said farmer Ghulam Jan, 27.
Blazing sun scorched people still sheltering on the rooftops of houses and mosques after the rain stopped in Turbat, but helicopters bearing aid were again grounded because of continuing downpours elsewhere. Khuda Bakhsh Baloch, the relief commissioner for Baluchistan province, said 1.1 million people were now known to have been affected by the cyclone. About 250,000 of them are homeless, while at least 21 have died.
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