People have been urged to "step up to the plate" to help flood-devastated Pakistan as the United Nations launches the world's biggest humanitarian appeal.
The UN wants to at least treble the £295m raised so far to stop the spiralling crisis - and international aid agency Oxfam has claimed that four million Pakistanis in need of food aid are yet to receive it.
Jane Cocking, the charity's humanitarian director, said: "This is a crisis of a truly epic scale and it's far from over.
"If the people that need help do not receive it, then disease and hunger could spiral - we desperately need donors to step up to the plate and inject urgent funding.
"These people have lost so much, but they still could lose more. Even today, people are drinking dirty and contaminated water straight out of the Indus river."
With water yet to recede in some areas, and tools washed away by the floods, Oxfam has warned that farmers are set to miss the planting season.
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The UN wants to at least treble the £295m raised so far to stop the spiralling crisis - and international aid agency Oxfam has claimed that four million Pakistanis in need of food aid are yet to receive it.
Jane Cocking, the charity's humanitarian director, said: "This is a crisis of a truly epic scale and it's far from over.
"If the people that need help do not receive it, then disease and hunger could spiral - we desperately need donors to step up to the plate and inject urgent funding.
"These people have lost so much, but they still could lose more. Even today, people are drinking dirty and contaminated water straight out of the Indus river."
With water yet to recede in some areas, and tools washed away by the floods, Oxfam has warned that farmers are set to miss the planting season.
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