“We have warned the residents of Qubo Saeed Khan to leave immediately and provided them transport.

“More than 100 villages in the flood path are also under threat,” the DCO said, adding that their inhabitants should also shift to safe places.

“We are trying to divert the floodwater towards a dyke near the Zero Point and drop it into the Hammal Lake and onwards to Manchhar through the main Nara valley drain,” he said.

The Garang regulator is the distribution point of irrigation water between Sindh and Balochistan. After dismantling the regulator, floodwaters are flowing in reverse into the Saifullah Magsi branch.

Panic gripped Shahdadkot and Qubo Saeed Khan where and exodus created transport problems.

According to sources, the floods are likely to affect the Dost Ali and Gaibidero union councils and the Warah taluka.

Mounting pressure and rising water level in the Indus near the Larkana-Khairpur bridge has breached its right embankment.

The National Highway Authority (NHA) is using heavy machinery to strengthen the embankment.

The authority's Resident Engineer, Irshad Kalhoro, said the breach had heightened pressure on the Abad-Mangli dyke, which was being strengthened.

“We will not plug the breach at the moment, but try to divert the flow.”

Rangers have been deployed on the bridge.

A large number of marooned people have taken shelter along the Abad-Mangli dyke.

Larkana DCO Hassan Naqvi said floodwaters accumulating in a pond between the right bank and the dyke were moving towards the main current which was a positive sign.

He said the NHA was trying to divert the main current towards the bridge to ease pressure on the Abad-Mangli dyke. JACOBABAD SAFE

: Most of the deserted Jacobabad town is safe, but floodwaters have hit some of its low-lying areas. Authorities were trying to pump out the water.

Garhi Sabhayo and Mochi Basti areas near the town were inundated on Sunday evening and the Christian graveyard was submerged on Monday.

The grave of Jacobabad's founder Sir John Jacob is also in the graveyard.

The highway between Shikarpur and Jacobabad remains inundated. Water flow over the highway is dropping, but restoration of traffic is likely to take at least a couple of days.

QUETTA: After devastating Dera Allahyar and hundreds of other settlements in and around Rojhan Jamali, floodwaters have entered the area of Hafizabad, Cattle Farm, Cadet College and Agricultural Research Centre and are now threatening Usta Mohammad and Gandakha towns.

The administration has issued a flood warning and the towns are being evacuated. “Around 90 per cent of the people of Usta Mohammad have shifted to safe places,” official sources said, adding that the remaining families were waiting for rescue teams because they did not have resources to move out on their own.

Power supply to Dera Allahyar and other affected areas in Jaffarabad district has been stopped and Balochistan's road and rail links with Sindh remain suspended.

At least 14 people were killed in flood-related incidents in Jaffarabad on Monday.

The floods have destroyed arrangements for drinking water in the area.

Chief of the Army Staff Gen Ashfaq Parvez Kayani is likely to visit Jaffarabad on Tuesday.

Commander Southern Command Lt-Gen Javed Zia said that over one million people had been rendered homeless and the districts of Jaffarabad and Jacobabad immediately needed tents, food and drinking water.

Irrigation officials and local government staff are working with the help of villagers to fortify the banks of Khirthar canal to save Usta Mohammad and Gandakha.

The situation in Usta Mohammad tehsil is worsening because after hitting Rojhan Jamali floodwaters have entered the Khirthar and Hair Din drainage canals. The water pressure has destroyed the Garang regulator on the Sindh-Balochistan border. Dawn

“Floodwaters have started flowing towards Sindh after entering the Khirthar canal,” an official of the Balochistan irrigation department told .

He said floodwaters had also entered the Saifullah Magsi canal and were threatening Ghari Khairo in Sindh.

Sources alleged that the Sindh irrigation authorities were once again trying to divert water towards Balochistan by breaching the Saifullah Magsi canal.

“Usta Mohammad will be destroyed if the canal is breached and water flows towards Balochistan,” Khirthar Canal Executive Engineer Nazir Zehri said.

The Khanpur canal is overflowing and has inundated a bridge.

The canal's left bank was breached on Monday to reduce water pressure towards Usta Mohammad and adjoining areas.

Floodwaters from Jacobabad have destroyed the entire town of Dera Allahyar, the district headquarters of Jaffarabad.

“Not a single house in the town is intact,” Lt-Gen Zia told reporters after visiting the affected areas. He said affected people were living in the open with temperatures soaring to 50 degrees Celsius.

He said people had lost their livestock and almost everything else they owned.

He said the displaced people who were living in Jacobabad, Dera Allahyar, Rojhan Jamali and Usta Mohammad were being shifted to Dera Murad Jamali, Sibi and Quetta where the army and the provincial government had set up camps for them.

“They need 500 tons of food daily,” Lt-Gen Zia said.

Three C-130 planes loaded with relief goods landed in Quetta on Monday. The relief goods will be sent to the affected areas by trucks.

Over 600,000 displaced people from different areas of Sindh and Balochistan have taken shelter in Dera Murad Jamali, Sibi and Quetta. Most of them are facing a shortage of food and tents.

Outbreak of diseases has been reported in some areas.

The administration has appealed to philanthropists to provide food, water, tents and medicines to the affected people.