The tactic now seems to backfire as philanthropists have stopped relief activities in the area.

The district administration had set up the tent city on Umar Kot-Chachro road.

In recent days, the flood survivors, as well as people seeking to make some quick bucks, have armed themselves with stones. They lay in wait for relief trucks, which they run to stop as soon as they appear on the horizon.

Philanthropists carrying relief goods in trucks are threatened with road blockage if they fail to offer a cut to stone pelters which include women and children.

After the district administration failed to provide security to relief trucks, supplies were stopped.

People in tent cities are living a hard life as getting a can of water and food is a difficult task.

However, those living on the roadsides still far better than the flood survivors who chose to live near their inundated villages, away from main roads. Flood relief has not reached them.

In most of the Sindh district, highways are the only elevated and dry patches of land as most of the province remains submerged in water.