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Summary
Dozens of villages have been flooded due to the breakage of flood safety barriers at Taunsa Barrage and 950,000 cusec of flood water is moving towards lower Punjab and Sindh. Hundreds of houses have been completely destroyed in Laiyyah as well due to the flood water.The heavy flood of River Indus near the Taunsa division has claimed lives of 8 people so far, while dozens are still missing; where as the death toll in Battgram and Kohistan districts due to floods has increased to 125. As the flood water rushed in the surrounding areas of Taunsa, such as, Bakhri No Baramda, Basti Manjootha, Bait Ladha, Mir Kher Pati Wala, hundreds of houses were demolished and washed away.The flood safety barrier of Sheiru in Jampur was also destroyed due to heavy pressure of flood water due to which hundreds of hectares of agricultural land is also flooded. As many as 498 small settlements have been completely flooded in Rajanpur as well. In Maouzu Kacha Mirani and Kuch Jhakkar, more than 2000 victims of flood are stranded, while on the other side Sargodhas divison Shahpur and division Sahiwal have also been declared grief-stricken.In the surrounding area of Kashmoor and Kuccha, 400,000 cusecs of water released from Guddo Barrage, flooded more than 200 villages and thousands if hectares of agricultural land. The count of flood victims is reported to be more than 100,000.
