Tausna Sharif is experiencing a high level flood as 568,000 cusecs floodwater is e passing through Taunsa Barrage after 18 years. The Indus Highway has been closed for the last 30 days, most of the roads linking Punjab and Khyber Pukhtoonkhaw have been disrupted. The bus service between Karachi, Peshawar, Quetta and Islamabad remains suspended. As the Indus River remains in high-flood, most areas of upper Sindh including Shahdadkot, Sajawal, Ratodero and Qabo Saeed Khan have been put on red alert by authorities.With 1,500 deaths already confirmed by devastating floods across the country, more lives at risk as stagnant water and lack of safe drinking water pose a potential risk of spreading skin diseases, diarrhoea-and-cholera-related diseases, as well as epidemics like measles among the children.A huge flood-wave is moving towards Larkana and Khairpur districts after an embankment was breached in the area. More than 250 villages situated in kacha areas of Benazirabad district have been submerged in floodwater. Hundreds of people are marooned in the area. Local people have built a temporary embankment along the Indus River in Kunbhar, Shahdadkot district.Jacobabad city still remains cut off from the rest of the country after floods inundated the area three days ago.Floods have turned their directions towards Keerthar Canal in Jacobabad after water was seen flowing backwards due to destruction of gates located at Karang Regulator near Shahdadkot. DCO Shahdadkot directed evacuation of 150 villages including Qabo Saeed Khan on emergency basis after the district was alerted against potential flooding. As many as 25 villages located in Tehsil Manjhand of Jamshoro District have been flooded, leaving thousands of people stranded. A gigantic flood torrent is marching towards Larkana and Khairpur districts after a huge crack was developed in under construction security bund: aimed at turning direction of River Indus away from civic population in both the districts. The level of floodwater spread around Jacobabad district is rising alarmingly owing to arrival of more water from broken bund along Indus River. Meanwhile, Guddu and Sukkur Barrages are in exceptionally high flood while a medium flood is reported at Kotri Barrage. This would result in inundation and riverine flooding in low-lying areas of Khairpur, Jacobabad, Ghotki, Sukkur, Larkana, Benazirabad, Hyderabad and Naushero Feroze districts. Water flow at Guddu is 10, 767, 86 cusecs and outflow is 10, 761, 90 cusecs while in Sukkur inflow is 10,256, 30 cusecs and outflow is 9,938,80 cusecs.
