SUKKUR, June 27: At least eight villages were flooded when a breach developed in the Pat Feeder Canal, near RD-238, on Friday morning.

The breach was only 50 feet in the beginning but later spread to 250 feet.

Gushing water entered the villages of Jummal Bugti, Mohammad Salah Gajani, Nandwani, and Kandrani and four small villages.

A large area of farmland was inundated and at least 200 huts collapsed when the water gushed into the villages.

The people moved to safer places with their belongings.

The irrigation staff closed the Pat Feeder Canal from Guddu and were trying to plug the breach with the help of the villagers.

However, the water current is so strong that they were facing difficulties in plugging the breach.

The villagers claimed that standing rice crops on hundreds of acres had been destroyed.

They said that nobody had come to help them and they were sitting under the open sky without any food and water.

SHOT DEAD: Rajab Ali, a guard of the Bismillah Rice Mill, Jacobabad, was gunned down by unknown armed men on Friday.