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After devastation in South, flood heads towards Sindh
* Hundreds of villages of Muzaffargarh under water after breaches in Bait Gopang and Sarwardabad Zamindara dykes
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MUZAFFARGARH: Floodwater is heading towards Sindh after tormenting hundreds of villages in southern Punjab.
More than 85 villages have been inundated after breaches at Bait Gopang and Sarwardabad Zamindara dykes near Head Panjnad. Floodwater has also entered Saitpur after breach at Super Dyke in Muzaffargarh District, suspending road link with Alipur city. Locals are moving to safer places. Some 300 villages around Muzaffargarh have been inundated and the flooding has also devastated thousands of acres of cotton crop. Several villages between Doaba and Chak Rohari were submerged in floodwater and crops at thousands of acres of land were damaged when authorities created a breach at Chak Rohari Dyke to divert water towards Indus River.
Reports from Shujaabad say that fifty houses have been demolished while three hundred families have taken refuge at the rooftops of their houses for the last three days in Jhoke Thandheer, Mochi Wali and Chadhar Wali. High current of water measuring six hundred thousand cusecs was passing near Shujaabad on Monday. Water level at Kot Mittan, at the border of Punjab and Sindh, was recorded at four and a half hundred thousand cusecs on Monday afternoon and was continuously rising. Flood Forecasting Centre estimated that the water level here would touch six hundred thousand cusecs mark. People of the surrounding areas are moving to safer places. According to the latest hydrological conditions and due to breaching of dykes at River Chenab between Qadirabad and Panjnad, the risk of high to very high flood level at Guddu and Sukkur has decreased.

Courtesy www.dailytimes.com.pk

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