Shikarpur, Pakistan (CNN) -- Aslaam Noon sits cross-legged on the ground in the scorching Sindhi sun. He raises his hands to the sky and cries out for God, and then he gently leans over and kisses the small mound of dirt in front of him. Buried underneath is the body of his eight-year-old son.
Noon is overcome with grief and suddenly slumps over, unconscious. His male family and friends from the village surround him.
"Become conscious," they say as they splash water on his sun-weathered face.
As Aslaam Noon's eyes open, another cry bursts out from a relative sitting a few feet behind him.
Tasleem Noon is facing a different direction. He is crying over two more mounds of dirt. The dirt conceals the bodies of his young son and daughter.
"An injustice has been done to me," he cries. "I never though this would happen to me".
In total there are three fathers from the large extended Noon family crying over their children's graves in the village cemetery.
The cemetery is now surrounded by water. It survived the worst floods in Pakistan's history, but four of the Noon children did not.
The Noon family thought they were safe. The entire village heeded the warning when authorities told them to get out as the floodwaters began bearing down on their village. The Noons and their neighbors sold their gold and some of their livestock to pay the exorbitant rates truck drivers were charging to drive them to safety.
It was a good call. Some of the village was submerged in water while the rest was surrounded by it.
Weeks after the initial flooding, the Noon family -- along with 300 other villagers -- returned home. They were happy to find some of their mud huts still standing.
But the floodwaters weren't completely gone. Three days after they arrived, four of the Noon children drowned in the receding floodwaters around the home.
In keeping with Muslim tradition, the men gather at the cemetery on the third day of mourning. Women are not allowed to join them at the grave site. CNN
