NAROWAL, Aug 13: More than 50 villages were awash with flood water because of overflowing of Nullah Daik on Friday night, badly damaging the rice crop.

The worst-affected villages are Paing, Naragwali, Ballo, Lalah and Bhelolpur. At least 2,000 houses, the Rural Health Center in Qila Ahmedabad, several schools and colleges were also under two to three feet of water.

The people in the affected villages are confined to their homes and most of them have taken refuge on their rooftops. The RHC in Qila Ahmedabad has stopped functioning and the flood water has destroyed medicines and equipment on a large scale.

The traffic on Narowal-Sialkot Road has been suspended for 12 hours because it has come under five feet of water. The water is also flowing on a road near Qila Ahmedabad.

Rescue 1122 district officer Adnan Nawaz said that over 50 villages were affected by the flood water, but no causality was reported so far.

He said: “We are all prepared to rescue the people in the flood-hit villages.”

Sources said the district administration had already declared a red alert in the Narowal district in wake of the flood situation.

Residents said they had to face the flood in every rainy season, but the government paid no heed to widen the Nullah Daik to save them and their valuable crops.

TOBA TEK SINGH:DCO Javed Iqbal has briefed Faisalabad Commissioner Tahir Hussain that the provincial government has been written to take steps against the erosion of Ravi river in Kamalia tehsil, posing a potential threat to several families of two localities.

In a meeting here on Saturday, the DCO said that residential plots had already been allotted to the affected people.

MPA Mian Muhammad Rafiq informed the commissioner that farmers belonging to dozens of villages had suffered a loss of millions of rupees because of water-logging from two canals which supplied irrigation water from the Trimmu Head Works.

He said hundreds of growers of his constituency were forced to leave the area after their farmlands had been destroyed due to water-logging.

The MPA urged the commissioner to take solid steps to save the people from the menace of water-logging.

Faisalabad RPO Aftab Cheema and DPO Ahsan Younis were also present on the occasion.