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Published 22 Jul, 2007 12:00am

DADU: Floodwaters threaten embankment

DADU, July 21: After hitting different parts of Larkana and Qambar districts, floodwater of Balochistan was moving into Dadu district and developing pressure on vulnerable points of FP bund.

Reports flowing in from different areas suggested that due to breaches and cuts in Main Nara Valley drain a number of villages were inundated in Johi taluka displacing thousands of people.

The government officials along with army teams, were distributing relief goods among the flood-affected people, but these measures had proved insufficient keeping in view the massive devastation caused by the floodwater.

Different parts of two union councils of Chhinni and Kamal Khan were severely damaged in Johi taluka as small towns of the talukas, including Azizullah Solangi, Suhari Khan Rodhnani, Saleh Jamali, Jan Mohammad Rodhnani, Noor Mohammad Shah, Gul Mohammad, Mir Machhi and Ahmed Khan were affected by the MNV drain water.

A large number of people were living between MNV drain and flood protective embankment, depending on their only source of livelihood which is cattle grazing and farming.

The flood water here has affected a population of over 150,000 as thousands of acres of agricultural land.At least 25 days have passed in flood situation and still a large number of people were marooned in the far flung villages.

A few people reached relief camps set up by government in Mehar where they were not getting relief goods.

Recently, the army, district government and Sindh government have set up relief camps in Qaim Jatoi, Faridabad and Suprio embankment, Mado and Ghozo but relief goods were being distributed among the people of near by villages.

Rab Nawaz Panhwar of Aliwal village told journalists that his family members were stranded but no one provided a boat to shift them. His family members were worried and waiting for relief goods since early in the morning.

Col Ehsan Ahmed, in- charge district relief camps, said that at relief camp in Qaim Jatoi village, they rescued hundreds of people stranded in water where a relief operation had also been initiated. He said that four major relief camps were operating in different areas where information about affected people was being collected and wherever we get information about stranded people we reach there.

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