tarpaulin

At another settlement, the U.N. refugee agency has run out of blankets, tarpaulins and sleeping mats, forcing refugees to sleep in the open.

"We call on international organizations to coordinate more tents and tarpaulins and other winter humanitarian responses."

There are crumpled signs for hospital departments strewn on the ground and medical records drying on a tarpaulin between the admin offices.

So too will tarpaulins, given the extent of the housing crisis.

Crowds of men set fire to pieces of tarpaulin as hundreds of police officers cordoned off several roads across the city, AFP correspondents reported.