UMERKOT: Heavy rain continued to batter Sindh towns on Monday, inundating vast areas, fields and villages and causing displacement of hundreds of families in Tharparkar and Badin districts.

It rained on the tenth consecutive day in Umerkot and completely flooded Samaro and Pithoro talukas where walls and roofs of many houses collapsed, rendering people homeless.

Burhan Kunbhar, a local Pakistan Peoples Party leader, told Dawn that they had shifted 1,000 families to two tent cities who were being provided water, food and health facilities.

But Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf MNA Lalchand Malhi alleged that only peasants of PPP landlords were provided accommodation in the tent cities.

The heavy rain caused damages in Badin, Mirpu­rkhas, Sukkur, Nawab­shah, Sanghar and Hyderabad also.

Published in Dawn, September 1st, 2020