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Updated 05 Sep, 2011 05:26am

Rains continue to lash Sindh and Balochistan

Ali Nawaz Wah and Pandraho Wah canals in Faizganj area of district Khairpur developed 50-feet-wide breaches, inundating eight villages and the surrounding areas.

In a roof collapse near Garhi Pul a child was killed and six women were injured, while after the rain, two, including a woman, died of snakebites at Nara and Paryalo.

Several villages and standing crops on vast areas in the Salehpat tehsil of Sukkur remained inundated by heavy rains and the rainwater coming down the hills, while the affected haven’t received any help as yet.

Hundreds of mud houses and standing crops on thousands of acres of land have been washed away in Dadu and Nawabshah, Nausehro Feroze, Larkana, Qambar, Shahdadkot and Ghotki.

The spread of epidemics have aggravated the miseries of the affected people as diarrhoea, gastro, malaria and skin diseases are growing rapidly in interior Sindh.

Torrential rains have wreaked havoc in Nasirabad, Jaffarabad, Osta Muhammad, Suhbat Pur, Dera Allah Yar, Dera Murad Jamali, Tambu, Manjho Shori, Baba Kot, Rojhan Jamali and other areas of Balochistan.

The safety bridge in Muzaffargarh has broken due to which the standing crops on 4,000 acre have been destroyed.

The roads and streets in Khanpur tehsil of Rahimyar Khan in Punjab also remained submerged under knee-deep stagnant water, which the administration has so far failed to drain out.

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