KHAIRPUR, Nov 8: The Kobri Shakh, fed by the Ali Bahar Wah, developed a 30-foot-wide breach in Pir Bukhsh Rajpar village near Setharja on Friday.

As a result, cotton, vegetable and other crops standing over 1,000 acres were submerged.

Later, the villagers plugged the breach on their own.It was learnt that one side of a newly-constructed bridge near the head of the Shakh was closed due to water pressure which caused the breach.

ACCIDENT: Eight-year-old Zameeran, daughter of Shehzado Shaikh, was killed after being hit by a truck (QA-2734) on the National Highway near Faizabad Colony here on Saturday.

The police arrested driver Nazar Mohammad Chandio and impounded the vehicle.

Meanwhile, a woman, Kora, 55, was killed and two-year-old Farmana, daughter of Abdul Ghafoor Jagirani, injured in Wada Machyoon near Ahmadpur on Saturday when a pickup overturned and hit a dates tree after its tie-rod was broken.

PROCESSION: The residents of Agra took out a procession on Saturday to protest against unscheduled daily power loadshedding for five to eight hours.