Flood survivors hold food received from a distribution point in Pagga Shar Khan village on August 6, 2010. — AFP

SUKKUR Ten villages were devastated by floodwater in Khairpur, reports said on Saturday. Meanwhile, people were being shifted to safer areas.

Water levels continued to surge in the Guddu and Sukkur barrages as the Meteorological Department issued a fresh flood warning for Sindh.

Some 962,468 cusecs of floodwater was currently passing through the Guddu barrage, the Irrigation Department said. However, more water was likely to enter the barrage.

Similarly, 400,710 cusecs was passing through the Sukkur barrage. If floodwater continued rising in the Sukkur barrage, it may lead to devastation of widespread areas of Rohri, Panu Aqil and Saleh Patt.

Floodwater has already destroyed several villages in the Kashmore district.

Meanwhile, the government has deployed Rangers and the army and has alerted all other concerned departments in the wake of the flood warning.

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