Five people have been killed and several injured in a stampede in Pakistan in recent weeks in Pakistan. free flour distribution points to which thousands of people affected by inflation and because of the high cost of basic goods in the country.

“In Punjab, four people, including two women, were killed at flour distribution points,” he told the newspaper on Friday. EFE head of the provincial police control office, Abid Hussein.

The officer said that several others were injured or passed out due to avalanches occurring at some points for receive bag free flour, within the framework of the state program of assistance to the most vulnerable families in the holy month of Ramadan.

In Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, another person died and several were injured when a stampede broke out at a distribution center last week, Peshawar police officer Fakhar Khan told EFE.

ON THE VERGE OF A CRISIS

Pakistan is experiencing inflation highest in 50 years, peaking at 31.5% last February, bringing the cost of a basic food basket almost doubled after the change of government in April last year.

As for flour, “last March, a 15-kilogram bag cost 1,150 Pakistani rupees ($4) and now it’s 2,300 rupees ($8) for the same bag,” says Ashan Khattak, an Islamabad-based merchant.

Food prices suffer additional growth holy islamic month of ramadan, what prevents people from coping with the rising cost of quality of life in the country.

Images shared on social media show groups of desperate people fighting over sacks of flour at distribution centers or robbing sack trucks.

more and more further V affected due to the high cost of basic goods, the devaluation of the currency and the elimination of subsidies for oil derivatives and electricity bills.