KN SHAH: Flood disasters continue in Dadu district, Khairpur Nathan Shah, the main city of the district, has been completely submerged in floodwater.
Floodwater also entered various urban areas of Johi and Mehar tehsils. Johi’s Degree College, Livestock Office, Kindergarten School, two Colonies are completely submerged in floodwater.
Meanwhile, water has also entered the urban population, including the petrol pumps of Tehsil Mehar, after which the citizens of the entire district are suffering from panic.
Flood victims have taken shelter on different roads and schools.
Earlier, the district administration had issued an alert over impending threat of flood and asked rural and urban populations of Mehar, Khairpur Nathan Shah and Johi towns to immediately move to safe places.
District officials warned people of Dadu on Monday evening that floodwater had reached just three kilometres away from the city.
Dadu deputy commissioner Syed Murtaza Ali Shah asked assistant commissioners and mukhtiarkars of the towns in a letter to help people shift to safe places.
He said the floodwaters from breaches in Suprio Bund and MNV Drain had reached Khuda Wah and were developing pressure at the canal’s embankment, just half a kilometre from K.N. Shah town. Fortunately, 80 per cent population of the town had already left for safe places.
