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Farmers devastated as floods destroy cotton crop in Sindh

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Sindh has been hit hard by floods after unusually heavy monsoon rains this year - Video Screengrab - Reuters Pakistani farmer Sajid Ali wades glumly through his flooded cotton field after days of torrential monsoon rains let up, surveying the irreversible damage. "My crop is almost totally destroyed, all six acres of it. There is no hope left, because even now the fields are covered in four feet of water," he said from Masoo Burburi, a tiny village in the province of Sindh. Southern Pakistan has been hit hard by floods after unusually heavy monsoon rains this year. Scores of people have been killed and hundreds of homes have been swept away. Around 50 villages in Sindh were inundated, reported local media, after flash floods from the neighbouring province of Balochistan flowed over, destroying thousands of acres of agricultural land and orchards. Ali's village was one of those hit hard. Around 60 families call it home, mostly engaging in agricultural work, pl