ISLAMABAD: Ongoing flood killed at least 17 in Noushehro Feroz, Badin, Sanghar and Hyderabad.
According
to the media reports, the torrential rains continued to lash parts of
Sindh and Balochistan provinces, perishing 11 people in various
incidents. Six people were killed by lightening in Sanghar district on
Thursday morning. Meantime, directives have been issued to evacuate
Jhuddu and Naukot.
Floodwater inundated several more areas of
Badin including Baghra Memon, Kadhan, Malkani and Ahmed Rajukay with
residents forced to take refuge on rooftops.
The Army and Navy
personnel are busy shifting stranded people, especially from coastal
belt to safer places. The district administration has set up 142 relief
camps at different points to accommodate more than 40,000 displaced
people.
A road linking Mirpur Khas and Tharpakar has been closed at Roshanabad.
Water
is still gushing out of two broken doors of Ranikot Dam, Jamshoro,
destroying Sann Railways track, which cut off rail links between
Larkana, Dadu, Sehwan, Jamshoro and Karachi. Flooding of saline nullahs
of Noushehro Feroz inundated several more villages.
Furthermore,
torrential rains pulled down two barracks of prisoners and residence of
jail superintendent in Sanghar. A 30-foot-wide breach in a stream near
Talha Town of Umarkot deluged vast swaths of land.
Chairman
National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) Zafar Iqbal Qadir said a
United Nations mission would visit the affected areas to make an
estimate of the losses caused by floods.
Driving rains paralysed life in Sindh, where gastro among other epidemics is playing havoc with the lives of affectees. Online
