It was an image that conveyed the human cost of the Pakistani floods – and the failure to deliver aid to those affected – more powerfully than any statistic: four young children lying on a filthy patchwork quilt, one of them sucking on an empty yellow bottle, all of them covered by flies. The photograph by Associated Press's Mohammad Sajjad went around the world and featured in the Guardian's Eyew
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