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HYDERABAD, Aug 13: Scores of villages along the Indus river were inundated on Sunday with the rise in flood water.
District administrations along the river have put their staff on high alert cancelling their leaves as long as there is a threat to embankments.
The districts have strengthened the river’s embankments and increased patrolling to be able to plug in time if any bund gives way under pressure.
JACOBABAD: About 25 more villages were submerged in water after rise in the river’s water level at Guddu barrage inundating cattle, cotton and paddy on hundred of acres in Kashmore district.
No loss of life was reported from any part of the district.
The flooded villages are: Habibullah Balachkani, Asad Balachkani, Ghulam Qadir Solangi, Rasool Bux Solangi, Abdul Ghafoor Bhutto, Ishaq Bhutto, Rasool Bux Shar, Azim Kosh and Qutbuddin.
SHIKARPUR: In the district’s kutch area crops of banana and cotton over 30,000 acres were destroyed and scores of villages were inundated when the river’s water level rose.
The army personnel and district administration met on Saturday at Ruk spur—3 to review the arrangements for relief and rescue operation in the flooded area.
TANDO MOHAMMAD KHAN: District Naib Nazim Pir Ashfaque Jan Sarhandi on Saturday cancelled leaves of the employees of irrigation department in the face of continual rise in the river’s water level near Mulla Katiyar and Bulri Shah Karim.
Mr Sarhandi asked the officials and lower staff of the two departments to remain on high alert and increase patrolling on the embankments.
The irrigation department must submit report on the latest situation every five hours to the district and the provincial governments, he said adding that the district would pay compensation to the two brothers of Bulri Shah Karim taluka who died recently in rain related incidents.
The president of Tando Mohammad Khan Bar Association, Abdul Hakim Memon, appealed to the president, prime minister and chief minister to declare the district as calamity-hit.
At a news conference in Tando Mohammad Khan on Saturday, Mr Memon pointed out that the few crops on a few thousand acres that the farmers had been able to cultivate due to acute shortage of water had been inundated during recent heavy rains.
With virtually no arrangement for draining out the water, the poor farmers would have to face unbearable losses, which he put at Rs1.5 billion.
