Stranded people rescued

Published July 27, 2003

SUKKUR, July 26: The situation at the Head Shakh has become normal and the people stranded in water have been shifted to safer places.

Different Sindh government agencies, on the directives of Prime Minister Mir Zafrullah Khan Jamali, are busy in collecting information about homeless people and their losses.

The affected people have demanded that the government should compensate them for their losses.

Meanwhile, relief operation, which was suspended yesterday due to rain, has started again and the remaining stranded people are being shifted to safer places where food and medicines are provided to them and doctors are deputed for their checkup.

ACCIDENT: Two people were killed and nine others, including four girls, injured in a head-on collision between a van and a rickshaw near Daharki on the National Highway on Friday.

The van carrying the family of a retired Brigadier from Rawalpindi to Nawabshah when reached near Hafiz Suleman village collided head-on with a rickshaw. As a result both rickshaw and van were overturned.

The occupants of the rickshaw, Sayano Malik and Bunhoo Mangwar, died while Naik Riasat Ali, Shah Nawaz, Mohammad Saleem, Erum, Asia, Nazia, Sadia, Mohsin and Ali were injured.

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