Lahore, July 27 -- In a recent disaster, nearly half of the 266 people killed in Pakistan's monsoon season this year have been children on their national school holidays, exposing once again the government's chronic failure to protect its most vulnerable citizens, Geo News reported.

According to Geo News, 126 children have died since June 26 due to Pakistan's heavier-than-normal monsoon rains. Most deaths occurred in Punjab, where rainfall levels have been reported as 70 per cent higher than last year.

Children, left unsupervised due to school closures, fell victim to electrocutions, flash floods, building collapses, and drowning.

Mazhar Hussain of the Punjab Provincial Disaster Management Agency admitted that "children are very vulner...