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Sindh floods: Several villages inundated
KARACHI: After heavy rain lashed Sindh, the number of those affected keeps increasing, Geo News reported. The situation has become worse in Badin, while in Khairpur district an additional 15 villages have been inundated.After overnight rain, the situation once again deteriorated in Badin and five villages were inundated. Meanwhile in Khairpur district 6,000 villages have been inundated and according to DCO Abbas Baloch, over one million acres of farm land have been destroyed. The army has been summoned to Faiz Ganj while communication of several areas has been cut off.
Over fifty villages have been inundated in Thatta while in Ghotki the most affected area is Obaro where several feet of water is standing. Roads leading to Dadu are closed thus the price of food items have skyrocketed.
Meanwhile the water level at a dam in Jamshoro has increased drastically and due to two doors of the dam breaking, a railyway track along with over 200 villages have been inundated.
Courtesy www.geo.tv