LARKANA, Aug 10: About fifteen thousand pamphlets have been printed requesting people living in the kutcha area as to move to safe places before the arrival of high deluge.

This was stated by EDO (revenue) Ghulam Mustafa Phull on Thursday.

He said that the army would air drop handbills and pamphlets through helicopter or a small plane in the kuthca area of Larkana on Friday.

The peak water flow will pass from the district on August 13-14.

The Larkana DCO said that troops had set up two camps in Akil and Bakrani.

The army will start patrolling flood protective bunds which stretched over 54.3 miles from Shahani to Larkana-Sehwan (LS) bund.

The DCO said that the entire kutcha, which consisted of 34 dehs and 96 villages, would come under flood when 600,000 to 700,000 cusecs would pass through the district.

At the Shahani loop bund, officials told Dawn that five members of a family of Shiakh village had come to relief camp from kutcha so far.

On Thursday, the Indus river was directly striking at the Akil-Agani loop bund and Abad loop bund that had been declared most sensitive and vulnerable.

The high deluge even up to one million cusecs would pass comfortably from the points, said Ghulam Haider Qureshi the superintendent engineer.

It may be mentioned that the embankment between Akil and Abad had not been properly maintained.

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