DADU, Aug 4: The district authorities have advised the villagers residing in the catchment area of the Indus to shift their families to safer places immediately as the water level in the river was rising.

The river has already flooded some 150 villages and a vast area of land, including the forests from the Sui Channa to Bhudhapur area.

The divisional forest officer said 130,000 acres of forest land was flooded in the district and the water was hitting RD-99, 100, 77 of the LS Bund.

The people from villages have started shifting to safe places with their cattle heads. The irrigation authorities have established check posts at the LS Bund and deployed watchmen to face the situation.

Meanwhile, the irrigation authorities have started to drain out water from the Manchhar lake to the Indus river near Sehwan to defuse pressure on the protective bund of the lake. Initially four doors of the Aral tail and two doors of Aral head and Danistar canal were opened.

Reportedly, the Nain Gaj was hitting at different points of the flood protective embankment from RD-37 to 50 with pressure.

Normally during the monsoon Nain Gaj damages the Bolder Bund and the irrigation department repair it after the flood season and this was not dangerous for the area.

The executive engineer irrigation Habibullah Kabooro said all the roads of the area were flooded by the Nain Gaj hence it was impossible to reach there.

The DDO revenue Riaz Massan said the Nain Gaj had inundated some villages including Dhanoo-Ji-Takari, Sevo Jamali, Shahak Rodhnani and Karim Bux. He said the district administration had sent 500 relief packets for the affected villagers through boats.