Risk of 'high to very high flood' level at Guddu, Sukkur decreases
Mithan Kot residents are moving to safer places amid flood threat.
SUKKUR (Web Desk) - According to 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, the Flood Forecasting Division reported on Monday.
Resultantly, the River Indus at Guddu and Sukkur may attain medium to high flood level ranging between 400,000 cusecs to 500,000 cusecs from 16th September to 18th September.
All concerned authorities are informed to take appropriate actions.
On the other hand, eighty five villages have been inundated after breach at Bait Gopang and Sarwarabad Zamindaran strategic dykes of Head Panjnad.
Flood water has entered Saitpur after breach at Super dyke in Muzaffargarh District, suspending road link with Alipur city. People are moving to safer places.
Several villages between Doaba and Chak Rohari were submerged in flood water and crops at around thousands of acre of land were damaged when authorities created a breach at Chak Rohari dyke to divert water towards Indus River.
Earlier on Sunday, at least 13 people including a bridegroom and two children drowned when a rescue boat carrying a wedding party capsized in flood-hit central Pakistan.
The boat, which was carrying at least 35 people, went down in rough waters in the Muzaffargarh district of central Punjab province.
Most passengers were members of a wedding party that had requested the use of the rescue boat to take them to a valima ceremony.
Floods and landslides from days of heavy monsoon rains have claimed more than 300 lives and affected as many as 2.3 million people in Pakistan.
Rescue operations Sunday were concentrated around the central city of Multan, home to two million people, where authorities blew up two dykes to try to stop the water inundating the city.
Some 300 villages around Muzaffargarh have been inundated and the flooding has also devastated thousands of acres of the cotton crop.
