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“Her back was broken on the spot”, Basra said.
“When she was born we thought we would give her a good education and a good
environment. That child was the most dear one”.
Since the food distribution that killed her daughter two weeks ago, Basra has received
no help.
“We are dying from hunger”, she said. “Our only hope is in God”.
It is a short walk from the camp to the spot where Nimani Bakhsh buried her twin girls,
Hanifa and Sharifa, in the shade of a large tree.
They lived for just 12 days. Nimani says they died of hunger because she could not
produce enough milk.
“Please come back, my children”, she said, weeping at the graveside.
“You have gone to the other world my children, but please come back. Oh God, please
bring them back”.
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