BADIN, Aug 2: Heavy rains wreaked havoc on the district’s coastal villages at midnight of Tuesday and Wednesday leaving scores of villages marooned in water.

The villages, Golo Mandhro, Yousuf Dal, Ramzan Mandhro, Umer Mallah, Roopa Mari, Haji Hajjam, Ibrahim Dal and many others were completely cut off.

The rains which have continued for last three days may cause a major breach in the tidal link of Left Bank Outfall Drain (LBOD) at any time if weather remains as hostile for next few days.

The tidal link plays havoc with lands, crops and villages in the district when it develops breaches during rainy season every year.

It developed more than 53 breaches when cyclone 2A hit the district. Some breaches were later plugged but many potentially dangerous plugs were left un-mended.

This scribe tried to contact the DCO of Badin, Aftab Ahmed Khatri, on Wednesday but he could not come on line because he was touring the coastal area. However, an official at the revenue department told that the villagers were not willing to leave their places.

He said that no loss of lives and crops were reported from any part of the district.

Meanwhile, the health department has formed mobile medical teams to provide help to the rain affected people. EDO Health Hafeezul Haq said that the department had provided medical facilities at Ahmed Rajo, Bhugra Memon and Behdmi and a mobile team led by taluka health officer had been despatched to coastal villages.

He said that medical officers and paramedical staff had been put on high alert but they needed four wheel vehicles to cover the coastal area.

Our Nawabshah correspondent reports: Standing crops and more than five houses were inundated when the left embankment of a saline drain near the Daur town developed a 25-foot wide breach on Wednesday.

The drain, which was running with rain and irrigation water since Tuesday, posed the danger to the town but nothing was done to reinforce its weak embankments, complained the affected people.

Mukhtar Ahmed, engineer of the Daur taluka, said that the breach posed no danger to the town for the time being because the town was on its right but he feared if the rains continued the right embankment might also breach.

He said that the taluka council staff are working round the clock to raise and strengthen the embankments and plug the breach.

Sarfaraz Ahmed Tunio, at the meteorology office, Nawabshah, said that there were no chances of rain in Nawabshah and Daur in the next coming days according to weather forecast received from Karachi.