QUETTA: Six villagers lost their lives when violent currents of a hill torrent breached a protection dyke in Dera Ghazi Khan late on Tuesday night while families affected by rain in parts of Sindh and Balochistan on Wednesday awaited government help or tried to reach safe places on a self-help basis.
As details of destruction wrought by unusual rains and flooding began to unfold, six more people were reported missing from the torrent-hit Shadan Lund protection dyke.
A large number of people in Lasbela area of Balochistan were marooned as rescuers faced difficulties in reaching them though 150 people were rescued from Lakhra tehsil.
According to villagers living near the protection dyke, they were caught unawares as the administration did not issue any warning about the torrents coming from the Soori Lund hill. Floodwaters also affected wheat stocks of the food department.
Rescue sources claim that parts of Pul Qamber, Basti Amdani, Chowkiwala, Basti Lashari, and Chitani Zindapir Morr were broken by Soori hill floods.
Using 14 boats, the administration started a rescue effort. The bodies of Amina, 40; Khalil, 50; Parveen Bibi, Rasheeda, Naseem, and one Muneer’s three-year-old kid were found.
Two boats were used in the Kot Chhuta tehsil rescue effort after the Kumharwala and Khosa areas were devastated by the Wadoor hill floods. Teams of rescuers relocated 46 villagers.
