According to reports the second spell of heavy rainfall which started from August 30 continued to pour down here on Saturday (Saturday).
More then 10,000 domestic cattle including cows, buffaloes, goats, sheep, donkeys, horses were killed by epidemic diseases in Mirpurkhas and Umerkot districts while thousands of domestic cattle were reportedly killed in different districts of Sindh due to continuous heavy rainfall and floods in lower Sindh districts.
According to Chairman National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) Dr. Zaffar Qadir, overall about 50 persons were killed in lower Sindh districts, according to details officially available.
He said that teams of NDMA had gone to the affected parts of Sindh including Mirpurkhas, Tharparkar, Badin, Hyderabad and other districts where a new spell of heavy rain has continued.
DCO said that a rescue operation has been conducted in Village Sain Dad Alyani where water had entered the village after occurrence of a breach in Puran Canal near Naokot. As a result about 250 persons were stranded in the village. DCO Mirpurkhas Ghulam Hussain Memon along with SSP Mirpurkhas Riaz Ahmad soomro reached there along with 100 police personnel and started the rescue work in the village. The rescuers pulled out all the stranded person from the village and shifted them to saffer places.
DCO said that owing a breach in Puran Canal the water flow entered village Sain Dad Alyani.
Meanwhile owing to dozens of breaches in Left Bank Outfall Drain (LBOD) system the LBOD Sim Nullah, Puran Canal, taluka Jhuddo, Naokot, Taluka Hussain Bux Mari, Digri, Tando Jan Muhmmad, Sindhri, Samaro, Kunri and other towns and adjoining areas of these tehsils have submerged in rainy and flood water and large number of people have been displaced who are being helped by the personnel in shifting their families to safer places.
A large section of local roads which connected different parts of Sindh have completely comes under rain and flood water and scores of small cities and towns were disconnected with communication system of the major cities.
Traffic system has also been suspended scores of small cities and towns of Sindh. Two to three feet rain water is standing in the affected smaller cities.
Pakistam Army, Pakistan Navy and Rangers personnel were busy in rescue work in the flood and rain affected areas of Lower Sindh districts.
There is an acute need of tents, food ration, blankets, medicine in the flood and rain hit districts of Sindh where 90 percent displaced persons were passing their life under open sky.