Over 80pc Bhan Saeedabad residents shifted to safer places
Daily Times Monitor
LAHORE: A nominal amount of floodwater from Manchhar Lake has begun to seep into River Indus after five breaches were made on the Larkana-Sehwan embankment, a private TV channel reported on Sunday.
According to the Irrigation Department, despite a total of 13 100-foot wide cuts in the Larkana-Sehwan Embankment, the water flow from Manchhar Lake to Indus was normal. However, water pressure had begun to mount at Zero Point Bund of the Indus Link Canal. The floodwater sustained pressure at Bhan Saeedabad’s defence line.
Reports said that the floodwater, after inundating 200 villages of five union councils of Sehwan, was rapidly moving towards Bhan Saeedabad. Two watercourses on RD-5 and RD-8 have been closed after they were broken. Around 2,000 houses in Ali Murad, Ghihalpur, Waris Marri, Babar, Haji Alam Jeho, Pir Bakhsh Brohi and Koro Khan Brohi have collapsed or damaged by the deluge. Over 80 percent of the Bhan Saeedabad residents have already shifted to safer places along with their assets, while the remaining 20 percent, mostly males, had stayed back to look after their property, the channel said.
Sehwan tehsil’s Bobak, Arazi and Bukhtiarpur union councils were water-locked and their ground links had been cut off for four days now. Water has entered the streets of Bobak, as the rescue operation of the Pakistan Army and the Pakistan Navy continued in Sehwan. At least 1,500 affectees have been relocated from various areas to camps. The floodwater receded a little in Khairpur Nathan Shah and people have started to return home in Mehar and Khairpur, the channel reported.
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