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| Jacobabad Evacuated |
| 2010-08-14 |
| As raging river waters caused more devastation in the country on Friday, over 80 percent of the 300,000 people of Jacobabad city were evacuated ahead of expected flooding over the next 24 hours. The water was only one kilometre away from the nearby Shahbaz Airbase. Floodwater is rushing towards the city after Tori Band (embankment) was breached. According to Jacobabad District Coordination Officer (DCO) Kazim Jatoi, the floodwater had entered Noorwah Canal, which would not be able to withstand the pressure for more than three hours. "Water, if it enters the city, will first of all affect the nearby Shahbaz Air Base," Jatoi warned. Dozens of villages were inundated near Sultan Kot in Shikarpur district due to breaches in the Begari and Sindh canals. Hundreds of villagers are waiting to be rescued in the area. Pakistan Army personnel were able to reach only one of the affected villages, Deen Muhammad Jafferi. They evacuated the people through a boat. Authorities in Sindh said that 45 people drowned in the Indus River on Friday. |
| Posted by:Fred |