SANGHAR, Sept 11: Thousands of rain-affected people in Sanghar, Shahdadpur, Sinjhoro, Khipro and adjoining towns are waiting for rescue and relief, while rainwater has entered a housing society in Sanghar.
About 90 per cent of villagers in the district have left their homes and since most of the government buildings are already crowded with rain-affected people they are living in the open along with their livestock.
There is shortage of water and food in relief camps and there have been reports of outbreak of skin and waterborne diseases because of people consuming contaminated water.
More than 150,000 people from Shahdadpur, Sanghar, Khipro, Kahi, Bhit Bhaiti, Sinjhoro, Shahpur Chakar and other parts of the district have taken shelter on sand dunes in Achhro Thar. They have lost thousands head of cattle.
In Kehar Khan Burdi village, a villager told this correspondent that houses had collapsed and crops inundated. Government schools are already crowded and, therefore, they had taken shelter on dunes.
He said people were suffering from skin diseases but getting no medical help, food or relief goods. They are living on meal a day. He appealed to the provincial government for immediate help.
There ahs been no power supply for thousands of villages in six talukas of the district since the start of monsoon rains.The roads from Sanghar to Mirpurkhas, Nawabshah and Hyderabad have been flooded at several places, cutting off the district from the rest of the region.
The affected people living in a school in Sanghar and a college in Khipro demonstrated against the government for its failure to provide relief.
There was a shortage of milk and other essential items in Khipro with all link roads and markets in the town submerged.
Two persons, Arjun Bheel and Ram Oad, were brought to the basic health unit Hathungo after they had been bitten by snakes.
People living in Al-Mansoora Colony, Model Town and Royal City held a demonstration after a breach in a saline water drain inundated their areas. They urged the administration to drain out rainwater.
A breach developed in a drain near Mohammad Bux Mangrio village, inundating the villages of Qadir Bux Gaho, Mumidoo Rajar, Ashraf Din Mari, Ali Khan Leghari, Phul Thaheem and Hajan Laghari.