SUKKUR, Aug 1: A breach occurred in a canal in Jacobabad district on Sunday while farmers took out a procession against water shortage. The 50-foot-wide breach occurred in the Eidan Wah near Garhi Khairo on Sunday morning , flooding hundreds of acres of agricultural land.

The flood water also surrounded three nearby villages including Gul Mohammad Jarwar, Jumma Khan Chodio and Beg Mohammad Bhurgari. As a result villagers have started shifting their families along with households and valuables to safer places and also were trying to plug the breach on self-help basis.

The gushing water was moving towards these villages and Garhi Khairo road where it could also inundate the railways track. No irrigation officials reached the spot till the filing of the report.

Meanwhile, a 35 feet wide breach occurred in the Herro Shakh near Hamza Khoso village of the Thul area as a result a vast track of farmland was inundated and standing rice crop damaged. No irrigation officials immediately reached the site of the breach. However, the villagers were trying to plug the breach on self-help basis.

PROTEST: Hundreds of growers of Thull town took out a procession on Sunday following the non-availability of irrigation water in the Dabbi minor and Thull distributary.

The protesting growers alleged that Sindh Minister Suhrab Sarki and his friend Sikandar Banglani with the connivance of irrigation officials had closed the minor to irrigate their own lands.

They said their crops over thousands of acres were being destroying. They said the irrigation department officials were depriving poor growers of water.