Rajanpur flood-marooned people evacuation begins

The overflowing floodwater drains inundated hundred of villages here, while the Chinese staffs, working on Kachchi Canal Project, are being evacuated from the affected areas by helicopters.

Rajanpur Administration has started relief operation for evacuating the flood-marooned people from the affected areas and the Chinese staffs working on Kachchi Canal are being taken out buy helicopters. The floods hit over 160 villages inundating the standing crops and houses, which compelled over 6,000 people leaving their hearth and home for safer places. The Administration has set up relief camps at seven different places across the district, where the flood struck people are being provided with food. A young man was washed away by the onrush of floods at Meoka village near Dajal, while the breach that had occurred in the Dajal Canal has been bridged and the water supply from Taunsa Sharif to the Canal has been halted. The waves of floods have entered into Qasba Londi Saida near Jampur and heading towards Hajipur and Fazilpur. The Administration has cautioned the people in the area.