LAHORE, Aug 13: The residences of Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani and former chief minister of Punjab Dost Muhammad Khosa were also inundated as torrential rains submerged many roads, streets and low-lying areas of the city for the third day on Wednesday.

Mr Gilani owns a house in the B block while Mr Khosa, now a member of the Punjab cabinet, in DHA’s Z block from where rainwater was pumped out by Wednesday noon.

Till 7pm, the DHA had received 300 or so complaints regarding accumulation of rainwater on various roads of its residential blocks.

“Over 170 complaints pertained to J Block and the DHA sanitary staff has redressed more than 50 per cent of them,” said an official of the premier housing colony of Lahore that started developing some 30 years ago and has 30,000 or so houses.

Elsewhere in the city, the worst-affected areas included Tajpura’s B block, Kot Lakhpat, Chungi Amer Sidhu’s adjoining localities, especially Bostan Colony, Ghaziabad, Harbunspura, Railway Colony at Garhi Sahu, Nishtar Colony, Badami Bagh, Mahmood Booti, Ichhra, Samanabad, Firdous Market and Centre Point at Gulberg, Model Town, Barkat Market at Garden Town, Mehran, Sikandar, Ravi and Kashmir blocks of Iqbal Town, Sabzazar, Sanda, Bibi Pak Daman, Shah Jamal, Shah Kamal, Rajgarh, Shadbagh, Kareem and Malik Parks along Bund Road.

Roads and streets remained submerged for hours at Shahdara, Data Nagar, Qila Lachman Singh, Ram Galian, Cantonment, Gowalmandi, Township, Islamia Park, Wassanpura, Old Anarkali, Mozang, Bagh Gul Begum, Wahdat Colony, Gulshan-i-Ravi, Misri Shah, New Chauburji, Gulfishan Colony, Baghbanpura and Mughalpura.

Dev Samaj, Nisbat, Lawrence, Queen’s, Empress, McLeod, Nicolson, Brandreth, Cooper, Abbott, Begum, Multan, Jail and Nabha roads, The Mall, main boulevards of Gulberg, Gulshan-i-Ravi and Garden Town, besides GT Road (from Aik Moria Pul to Cooperative Store) remained under one to three feet water for several hours, breaking down several cars, motorcycles and rickshaws.

Rainwater also inundated basements of the General and Jinnah hospitals, besides compounds of the Children’s Hospital.