Two thousand stranded in Gandakha yet to be rescued Published September 2, 2010 comments Join our Whatsapp Channel Add Dawn as a trusted source QUETTA Some 2,000 people stranded in flood-affected areas of tehsil Gandakha in Jaffarabad district are yet to be rescued. The tehsil is under 10 to 12 feet of water. People are starving and have taken refuge at a high place surrounded by the floodwater. Sources said helicopters were flying over Gandakha but not landing to rescue the marooned people who urgently needed food, drinking water and medicines. They said that over 50 villages had been inundated in Gandakha and so far 300 people had been rescued. The floodwater is still coming from Saifullah Magsi canal and it stopped flowing downstream. Gandakha remained cut off from other areas of Jaffarabad for 15 days. Five children died of gastroenteritis in Jhal Magsi and one man in Kalat on Wednesday. Hundreds of people, including children and women, suffering from gastroenteritis and waterborne diseases have been admitted to differed hospitals in Balochistan.
