Floods Force Evacuation in Sindh, Balochistan

Pakistan News: Raging waters of the Indus river have flooded Sindh and Balochistan provinces, forcing evacuation of 90 percent of the villages.

People were forced to shelter under the open skies as they saw their homes being washed away.

Hundreds of villages in Jacobabad district in Sindh were under water and national highways and other major roads in the province were cut off from the rest of the country.

Floodwaters have inundated several villages and the affected people are facing huge problems in relocation due to the unavailability of transportation.

Barrages and dams in the region are all overflowing and the surging floodwaters have washed away sections of railway tracks connecting the province.

The district administration of Jaffarabad in Balochistan province asked the people to evacuate as breaches in a number of embankments on the Indus sent torrents of water rushing in.

Police were informing people on loudspeakers about the flood and asking them to move to safer places.

Many mud houses collapsed and people were forced to take refuge on rooftops of administrative buildings.

The flood-hit people taking shelter in relief camps are awaiting for relief goods and medicines, shortage of food has been reported from different villages.