UN chief appeals for aid in flood-hit Pakistan

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon urged the world to speed up assistance to flood-ravaged Pakistan on Sunday as the 20 million people made homeless grew increasingly desperate, and new torrents inundated villages.

Survivors fought over food being handed out from a relief vehicle close to the town of Sukkur in hard-hit Sindh province, ripping at each other's clothes and causing such chaos that the distribution had to be abandoned, according to an Associated Press reporter at the scene. (AP)