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Source: DTN News - - This article compiled by Roger Smith from reliable sourcesHYDERABAD: Flood water has forced its way into the outskirts of Shahdadkot amid efforts to save the city from inundation while Kotri Barrage is in very high flood, Geo News reported Sunday. GETTY IMAGES MUZAFFARGARH, PAKISTAN - AUGUST 22: Houses are seen surrounded by flood waters from aPakistan Army helicopter on August 22, 2010 in the village of Shah Jamaal west of Muzaffargarh in Punjab, Pakistan. The country's agricultural heartland has been devastated, with rice, corn and wheat crops destroyed by floods. Officials say as many as 20 million people have been effected during Pakistan's worst flooding in 80 years. The army and aid organizations are struggling to cope with the scope of the wide spread scale of the disaster that has killed over 1,600 people and displaced millions. The UN has described the disaster as unprecedented, with over a third of the country under water. Raju Nizamani area of Thatta has also been submerged while floodwater is pushing hard against many embankments of River Indus besides those in Larkana, Khairpur, Dadu. GETTY IMAGES A Pakistani army commando (2 R) frisks flood-affected survivors before they board a US rescue helicopter to be evacuated from Kallam, a town of Swat valley, on August 22, 2010. UN agencies stepped up calls for donors to deliver on their pledges for Pakistan to prevent what UN chief Ban Ki-mooncalled a 'slow-motion tsunami' from wreaking further catastrophe. Torrential monsoon rains unleashed the worst floods for 80 years, affecting 20 million people and an area the size of England in Pakistan's worst natural disaster that has already created economic, political and humanitarian chaos. High tide in River Indus resulted in flooding of dozens of villages near Amri, Khanot and Badapur including a railway track along these areas, keeping the train service between Karachi and Quetta suspended.  GETTY IMAGES MUZAFFARGARH, PAKISTAN - AUGUST 22: Houses are seen surrounded by flood waters from aPakistan Army helicopter on August 22, 2010 in the village of Shah Jamaal west of Muzaffargarh in Punjab, Pakistan. The country's agricultural heartland has been devastated, with rice, corn and wheat crops destroyed by floods. Officials say as many as 20 million people have been effected during Pakistan's worst flooding in 80 years. The army and aid organizations are struggling to cope with the scope of the wide spread scale of the disaster that has killed over 1,600 people and displaced millions. The UN has described the disaster as unprecedented, with over a third of the country under water. Fear has spread in surrounding localities due to seepages developed in dykes at Baodero, Jakhri, Sekhat and Galyan near Matiari.  GETTY IMAGES Pakistani army commandos escort a US rescue helicopter as Pakistani and US soldiers unload relief supplies for flood-affected survivors in Kallam, a town of Swat valley, on August 22, 2010. UN agencies stepped up calls for donors to deliver on their pledges forPakistan to prevent what UN chief Ban Ki-mooncalled a 'slow-motion tsunami' from wreaking further catastrophe. Torrential monsoon rains unleashed the worst floods for 80 years, affecting 20 million people and an area the size of England in Pakistan's worst natural disaster that has already created economic, political and humanitarian chaos. Floodwater, after ravaging thousands of acres of land in Jhark area, has now entered Raju Nizamani. Although, most of the residents of the areas at risk of flooding have already relocated to safer places, hundreds of people remain stranded there. Meantime, repair work is fast in progress on emergency basis on protective embankments in Shahdadkot, where administration in District Dadu’s tehsil KN Shah and Juhi has issued warning. Also, the floodwater sustained pressure at Dadu-Moro bridge. Kotri Barrge is witnessing flooding of high degree, as over 40 villages in Ameri and Khanot have been submerged by the flooding in River Indus, leaving the residents marooned. The train service between Karachi and Quetta is hitherto suspended as the railways track have sunk under water near Ameri, Khanot and Badapur areas of Jamshoro. River Indus bunds near Nawabshah including Mud Mangli, Mekaro Dhoro, Bachalpur, Lakhat and Daulatpur are persistently under mounting water pressure. The seepage from embankment of Chhandan Canal—a tributary of River Indus near Mkaro Dhoro—triggered panic among the residents, who have started evacuation in view of imminent flooding as a result of breach in the river. |
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