LAYYAH More than 300,000 people were displaced when the Indus in high flood devastated an area of about 1,200 square kilometres here on Sunday.

More than one million cusecs of water passing through the river washed away about 12,000 houses, ravaged 82 revenue estates and destroyed standing crops on 250,000 acres.

The flood threatened Layyah city's more than 200,000 residents and put huge pressure on the newly constructed 2km-long Kukranwala Bund.

In Muzaffargarh, about 4,000 people were marooned in the flooded area of Dera Din Pannah near Taunsa Barrage.

In Mianwali, engineers of the irrigation department were struggling to plug a breach on the left embankment of the Indus which had been blown up on Thursday night to save the Jinnah Barrage. The breach has inundated a vast area in the town of Daudkhel.