Four persons from a family have died and at least one hundred and fifty have suffered from acute gastroenteritis after drinking polluted water from a rain filled pond in a village of Khuzdar. Khuzdar is situated some three hundred kilometers away from Karachi.

There is no regular water supply and people and their cattle depend on rain water which gets accumulated in ponds. Emergency medical aid is being given to sufferers and the local government is bringing in safe water from tube wells in nearby areas.

There a lot of villages in Pakistan which do not have their own water supply through tube wells or river or streams. People and their cattle in such areas
depend on pond water. There is no system to make such water suitable for drinking and every year in Monsoon season such tragedies occur here and there.