SUKKUR: Pakistan Peoples Party Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, Sindh Chief Minster Syed Qaim Ali Shah and Leader of the Opposition in the National Assembly Khursheed Shah visited the flood-hit areas of Sindh on Sunday. As the PPP leaders visited the areas around Sukkur Barrage and embankments of River Indus at Ghotki and Khairpur, provincial Minister for Irrigation and Information Nisar Ahmed Khuhro and Secretary Irrigation Zaheer Haider Shah briefed them about the flood situation and the relief activities carried out in the area.
Heavy contingents of district police have been deployed on the route of Bilwal Bhutto and around the Sukkur Barrage. Food items were also distributed among the flood-affected people at the camps. Bilawal Bhutto Zardari asked the Sindh government to speed up rescue and relief activities. Sindh Chief Minister said all arrangements to facilitate flood-affected people of Kacha area in Sindh had been completed and added that more than five hundred thousand people from Kacha have shifted to safe places. Torrential rains had caused widespread devastation in Hyderabad, Matiari, Tando Allahyar, Tando Mohammad Khan, Jamshoro, Mirpurkas, Badin and Tharparkar districts of Sindh last month. A large number of structures and houses collapsed and standing crops over thousands of acres were destroyed.
Relief operations were initiated earlier in Sindh’s flood-hit areas of Sukkur, Larkana, Khairpur, Kashmor and Ghotki. More than 500 villages in these districts have reportedly been submerged due to rising flood water in River Indus.
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