Rush of flash flood submerge 100 villages in SW Pakistan
Pakistan Times Monitoring Report

NASEERABAD: Another mighty waves of floodwaters bursting down from the hilltops of Kohlu and Bolan have overtaken district Naseerabad of Balochistan, where in Manjoshori areas alone nearly 100 villages severely hit went under water, while Dera Murad Jamali town, Uch Power Plant and the camp of FWO were waiting for any such eventuality with their fingers crossed.

FWO and Balochistan Irrigation Department’s personnel and the volunteers of some NGOs have launched their relief operations in the affected areas and trying to divert the direction of onrushing waters from inhabited areas.

On the other hand, the affected people have not been able to reach safer places despite lapse of three days, as they could be seen sitting helplessly under the open sky by the National Highway roadside of Dera Murad Jamali.

The marooned people have demanded from the government to make arrangements for the provision food items, tents and their shifting to some safer places immediately.

Efforts afoot to save Uch Power Plant

Meanwhile, another reports says that mighty wave of flash floods roaring down from the hilltops of Kohlu and Bolan leaping 9 feet high and rampaging all in the way along Pat Feeder menacingly approaching fast to Chattar, Tambo and Manjshori, which has thrown the Uch Power Plant also in peril.

District Nazim of Naseerabad, Babu Mohammad Amin Umrani told that presently all relief operational efforts have been diverted towards severely hit Manjshori areas, where people trapped in flooding waters were being rescued. He said that the pressure of water was high and powerful.

He said that every possible effort and all out measures were being taken to save Uch Power Plant and Dera Murad Jamali town. He told that the crops of wheat and mustard on nearly 0.2 million acres have been washed away.

He told that Frontier Works Organization, Provincial Irrigation Department’s personnel besides the volunteers of some NGOs were engaged in shifting the people of the affected areas to safer places.

However, scores of families were still forced to live under the open sky with scanty food and drinking water supplies.

District Nazim told that the city government was striving to provide succour and relief to the affected people within its own resources.●