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ISLAMABAD: Torrential rains filled all water streams in Punjab and posed a flood threat in the province while Badin district in Sindh was declared calamity hit on Saturday, DawnNews reported.
Chief Minister Sindh Syed Qaim Ali Shah after an aerial survey declared Badin district as calamity struck and ordered immediate help for the affected people.
Although Tharparkar and adjoining areas have received the heaviest rainfall in Sindh, Badin district has suffered the most.
A lage number of villages have been cut off from the out side world and hundreds of people marooned.
The continuous heavy downpour has adversely affected Kharif crops of cotton and paddy and washed away vegetables and fodder on thousands of acres in lower region of the province.
In Punjab, incessant rains brimmed Dek Nullah while high level flood is being feared in Ek Nullah near Daska.
Punjab Natural Disaster Management Authority director General (r) Khalid Sher said that 20,000 cusecs of water was flowing from Ek Nullah.
He said that emergency has been declared in Sialkot, Daska, Wazirabad and Khanki, a private news channel reported.
Many areas near Daska submerged after the banks of Ek Nullah wilted against water.
Villages in the outskirts of Dek Nullah were inundated. Kasur Rohi Nullah played havoc and flooded dozens of villages and hundreds of acres of agricultural land.
