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KHAIRPUR, Aug 9: The chief engineer of Sukkur Barrage, Agha Aijaz Ahmed, along with DCO visited the embankments of River Indus in the katcha area of the district on Wednesday.
The officers inspected Ulra Jagir, Faridabad, Jamsher and New Mahessar bunds. The engineer pointed out various vulnerable points on the embankments and advised people to shift to safer places.
He said that 500,000-600,000 cusecs water would pass through the district during next few days. As of Wednesday the water flow stood at 264,000 cusecs upstream and 223,500 cusecs downstream Sukkur Barrage, he said.
The engineer directed the irrigation and revenue officials to supervise peoples’ evacuation from katcha areas to safer places and make announcements through mosques’ loudspeakers in this regard.
Reports from katcha area said that water had entered almost all the small and big lakes along the River Indus on Tuesday night.
ELECTROCUTED: A man was electrocuted when he touched a live wire and eight others sustained injuries when the roof of a roadside hotel collapsed onto them during rains on Monday.
Reports reaching here said that Dilbar Mirbahar, 25, was electrocuted when his hand accidentally touched a live wire while draining out water from the roof of his house in Jafar Mohalla village near Tando Masti Khan.
In the other incident eight men sustained injuries when the roof of a roadside hotel near the bus stand of Pir Jo Goth caved in onto them. It also damaged the furniture.
The injured were identified as Essa, Jan Mohammad, Farooq Hussain, Roshan Ali, Hamid Ali, Ayoub and Sadiq.
The Monday evening’s rain stranded a passenger of a bus in Dargan Wari Nai in the mountainous area of Kotdiji while area people rescued 50 passengers from a nullah.
The main roads and different colonies and localities of the city including Mall Road, Court, Station Road, Civic Centre Chowk, Old City Court Road, Law College Road, double crossing Luqman railway phatak, TNT Colony, Gharibabad, official staff quarters and katchiabadis were inundated with apparently no arrangements by the authorities to drain out water as it rained for the fourth day running.
The rains tore down the jutted-out sheds of hotels and shops with reports of diseases outbreak in cattle from Khairpur, Kingri, Kotdiji and some other areas.
The rainwater also did damage to underground telephone cables causing a large number of telephones to go dead in the city.
