KARACHI, July 8: Some 500 passengers, including women and children, were said to be stuck on the highway in 15 buses which were on their way to Karachi from Turbat (Balochistan), the Edhi sources said.

Rizwan Edhi told Dawn late on Tuesday night that he was taking four ambulances and food for over 1,000 people to Awaran, some 350km from the Karachi, where these buses were stranded due to flash floods in the seasonal rivers and rain-fed nullahs which had closed the road.

He said that Faisal Edhi would bring in more supplies in helicopter to Bela (Balochistan) where they would set up a base camp from where the foodstuff and medicines would be airlifted to the stuck-up people.

He said that the Edhi foundation was also trying to get a helicopter from the government, but the government had not yet agreed to give one.

Other sources said the government’s helicopter was in the use of the provincial chief executive.