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Pakistan floods: Second breach created at Athara Hazari embankment
JHANG: A second breach has been created by using explosives at Athara Hazari embankment in an effort to save the Trimmu Headworks.
The water flow at the Trimmu Headworks, where Jhelum and Chenab rivers converge, was over 500,000 cusecs.
Official sources said over 700,000 cusecs of water was approaching the Trimmu Headworks and over 400,000 cusecs of water in Jhelum River was also reaching there, simultaneously.
Over 300 villages of Athara Hazari and Ahmedpur Sial Tehsils had been inundated while water at certain points was about 20 feet deep.
The district administration had made all possible rescue and relief arrangements while the victims were being shifted to safe places with the help of Rescue 1122 and army soldiers.
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