HYDERABAD, July 30: People’s Party Parliamentarians MNA Nawab Abdul Ghani Talpur has said the intense water flow at the Indus River has rendered its embankments in Kotri, Sann and Manjhand weak.

In a statement issued on Wednesday, he feared that if the irrigation department did not strengthen the embankments, the river water would destroy hundreds of villages in Budhapur, Unnarpur, Kalri, Manjhand and Sann.

He said several villages in the Kotri taluka had already been submerged by water and 300 villages were surrounded by rainwater. He said the rain had damaged many link roads, disrupting the communication system.

The PPP leader regretted that despite widespread devastation in Dadu, the Sindh government had neither set up any relief camp nor announced any package for the affected people.

He demanded that the Sindh government should declare Kotri and Sehwan talukas as calamity-affected areas and urged the health department to send medical teams to provide treatment to stranded villagers.

SHIKARPUR: The people residing near the protective bunds of the River Indus, including Sewani Loop Bund, Sukkur Begari Bund, Chiman-Sukhpur Mirza Bund and Jhali Bund, in Shikarpur district were feeling insecure as the irrigation authorities were not repairing the weak embankments, which were likely to cause floods.

They said that rabbits, rats, water lizards and other wild animals made burrows in the embankments, which had been weakened and were likely to develop breaches but the irrigation authorities were neither having them plugged nor were strengthening them.

They have appealed to the Sindh chief minister and other senior officials to take serious notice of the issue.