Geo Pakistan

45 die in three days of Sindh, Balochistan downpours

KARACHI: At least 45 persons have perished in the unabated three days of torrential rains that lashed many parts of the country including Sindh and Balochistan, Geo News reported. Sindh stands devastated by the recent rain spell all across the province. Ali Nawaz Wah and Pandraho Wah canals in Faizganj area of district Khairpur developed 50 feet wide each breaches inundating eight villages and the surrounding areas. In a roof collapse near Garhi Pul a child, 8 died and six women were injured, while after the rain two including a woman died of snake bites at Nara and Paryalo. Several villages and standing crops on vast areas in the Tehsil Salehpat of Sukkur remain inundated by the heavy rains and the rain water coming down the hills, while the affectees haven’t received any help as yet. In Nawabshah, the stagnant and stinking rain water not being drained out creating worst health and hygiene problems, whixh has given rise to the fears of an epidemic breaking out. Following stormy rain in the district Mirpurkhas, breaches in LBOD (Left Bank Outfall Drain) was feared at five places and the work for the strengthening of the embankments is underway. The affected people in the surrounding area have shifted to safer places on self help basis. Hundreds of mud houses and standing crops on thousands of acres of land have been washed away by flooding rains in most areas of the district Dadu including Johi and Mehar. Nausehro Feroze low lying areas remain submerged in the stagnant rain water. In district Ghotki, the affected people, whose mud houses were washed away by stormy rains, are still waiting helplessly for some relief and succour. Larkana, Qambar and Shahdadkot low lying areas and the roads and streets remain inundated by stagnant rain water feared breaking out epidemic diseases. The roads and streets in Tehsil Khanpur of Rahimyar Khan in Punjab also remain submerged under knee-deep stagnant stinking water, which the administration has so far miserably failed to drain out, while the people facing different sorts of diseases, especially those related with drinking of contaminated water.