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DADU, Oct 30: A 45-feet wide breach occurred in Kudan Wah at Rahmatullah colony near Khairpur Nathan Shah town on Tuesday morning.
Some 500 acres of paddy crop and 28 houses of Rahmatullah colony were inundated while over 20 other houses of the locality collapsed.
The collapsed houses belonged to Ghulam Sarwar, Nooral, Nisar Ahmed, Ali Akbar, Arz Mohammad, Bukhsh Chandio, Hussain, Deedar, Soomar, Khuda Bukhsh, Noor Mohammad, Ihsan, Mashooq, Bakht, Mushtaq, Ghulam Haider, Gul Hassan, Ms Dhiani and others.
Irrigation officials and a large number of villagers were trying to close the breach but they have not succeeded till Tuesday evening.
Nisar Ahmed, an affected villager, told Dawn that he had informed irrigation officials about the breach in time but the team of the officials arrived after seven hours.
CLASH: Ten persons including two women were injured in an armed clash between two groups over a land dispute in village Sojhro Chandio of taluka Mehar on Tuesday.
Rifles, guns, axes, clubs and iron rods were used in the clash.
Those injured including Zainab Chandio wife of Mashooq, Ms Dhiani, Mohammad Ramzan, Ali Nawaz, Sarwar, Abdul Shakoor, Liaquat Hameed, Khadim and Liaquat Khan were admitted to taluka hospital.
The Mehar town police have registered two separate FIRs against 16 people of both the groups and are investigating.
KIDNAPPED: A married woman was kidnapped by six armed men in Azizabad colony, here on Tuesday.
Six armed men barged into the house of Akhtar Lashari, held the inmates hostage in a room, kidnapped Ms Safia, 17, and escaped in a car.
The Dadu town police on the complaint of Sarwar Lund, husband of the kidnapped woman, registered FIR against six accused namely Zafar Khoso, Akbar, Mehboob, Haroon, Abdul Latif and Manzoor.
SUICIDE: A young girl, Aneela, 17, daughter of Ghulam Mustafa Linjar, committed suicide by taking pesticide over some domestic problem in Radhan town the other day.
