Dozens of Pakistani children die in drought-stricken region

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Dozens of Pakistani children die in drought-stricken region

By Mehreen Zahra-Malik and Eissa Saeed ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Dozens of children have died of malnutrition and other causes in Pakistan's southern region this year, prompting Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to travel to the drought-stricken area to allocate $10 million in emergency aid. The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA) said 18 children under the age of five had died in January and another 23 in February. Pakistan's National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) confirmed the U.N. figures, saying 26 under-five children had also died in December when a severe drought hit the Tharparkar area of the southern region of Sindh.

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