THATTA: Spillage from a 35-foot-wide breach in the embankment of Darro branch near Belo town submer­ged two villages and 400 ac­res of agricultural land on Saturday.

The entire area submerged under knee-deep water within a few hours after water gushing out of the damaged embankment flooded Detal Khan Laghari and Mohammad Khan Leghari villages and played havoc with the farmlands in the morning.

Residents of the villages, Hanif Mallah, Suleman and others told the media that a cause of the breach could not be known immediately.

They said a large number of area people took part in the repair work started soon after the incident and later irrigation workers joined them. The breach was plugged by the evening.

Sujawal Deputy Commissioner Shaukat Hussain Jokhio rushed to the scene supervised the repair work. He directed the irrigation staff to carry out work to save more villages and farmlands from devastation.

Road accident

A shoemaker, identified as Mitho Meghwar, was knocked down by a speeding vehicle in Mirpur Bathoro on Saturday.