District Badin
Badin is the worst affected rain since the district has received both rounds of the rains. Besides crops and infrastructure loss the people are now dying of hunger and disappearing health facilities in the areas. The There is stinking, in the stagnant water which the area elders guess is might of the dead animals and human being all around. It is beyond the expectation that the people will not be able to find a safe way to shift their families. All major roads have been disconnected. Only well-off people might have shifted their families while majority could not move and now there is no safe way to go out. There are reports in the district that the incapable government and legislators are piling relief goods in certain warehouses and benefitting their own well-wishers instead of giving to the real victims. There is water flowing all around and it seems the people have lost their paths traveling from one place to the other in the uncertainty.
Three union councils, including Pangrio, Khalifo Qasim and Shadi Lodge, being located on the right side of Left Bank Outfall Drainage (LBOD) are completely inundated by the flood water, which is flowing from different directions. Almost all the adjoining villages in three UCs are under the water. All the people have been shifted by boats operating Pakistan army There are tractor trolleys for shifting the people to safe areas.
Traveling by roads there were carcasses of hundreds of livestock, especially small animals, goats, sheep and donkeys died in a large number, which can portray the horrible situation. People were migrating to unseen destinations, because they were unsure about their accurate place where to shift.
All the roads linking the Pangrio town with Tando Bago, Jhuddo, Naukot, Khoski and Shadi Lodge have already been destroyed by the water, leaving the people disconnected from rest of the world.
District Thatta
It shows that the rain has not only brought miseries to farmers and peasants also affected fisherman. More than 500 boats are anchored near local jetties in Thatta district, because due to rough sea weather the fishermen are reluctant to move their vessels for fishing. Continuously sitting idle at home has made the life of fishermen miserable. A large number of sparrow; crow and other birds are reportedly dead. The rain has damaged entirely infrastructure and communication channels. Electricity polls have collapsed in the areas causing power failure, disrupting water supply system in Thatta, Sujawal, Mirpur Bathoro, and Jati.
Due to paralysation of social life and movement, the villagers are facing food shortage.
Roads Damaged:
Jati to Jati Chowk (32 km) cut off due to water pressure.
Jati to Khorwah via Baran Abad (35 km) road is no more accessible for transport due to cuts and water of Karo Gungro Drain.
Jati to Chohar Jamali (35 km) road cut off due to water pressure
Sanghar to M irpurkhas
Sanghar to Nawabshah
Sanghar
The nonstop rains have hit hard to historical Sanghar city with inundating entire adjoining areas, including towns and villages, leaving the people in helpless conditions. There is no way for the people to shift to safe places anywhere. Hundreds of animals have reportedly died in rain-related incidents, hunger and diseases. The residents are forced to have contaminated water as entire water supply system was collapsed. There are reports that they have got truck loads with relief goods which they have put in warehouses. The affected people looking no hope are taking to roads and streets, blocking the roads, because breaches to drains played havoc with them. No elected representatives and district authorities have been witnessed over there to help the suffering people.
Umerkot
The rains also caused destruction in the desert district headquarters Umerkot with such an intensity that broke the history record, the locals say. The current wave of heavy and uninterrupted rains has added greatly to the miseries of the already affected ones. Hundreds of houses are collapsed. People and animal are dying reportedly because they are traveling to safer places, having no food and fodder. There is no health facility accessible to these people. The situation has left the people to live without shelter and vulnerable to various diseases like malaria, diarrhea and other gastric problems. The dire need of tents (shelter) is being felt for those who have been devoid of their houses. Hundreds of animals are seen dead along the road sides, because of mysterious diseases. Herdsmen are traveling to different directions to find a safe place for the families and their herds in the area.
Tharparkar
Tharparkar has almost lost its land routes with the rest of the country. There are reports of food shortage in the areas, because traders cannot reach the bigger markets. The certainty has panicked the people, who never experienced such a devastated rain. there is worst condition in which the people are living. Specially in those low lying areas where condition is worst in terms of house collapse and road damages, the people feel unsafe.
Livestock on sale
Displaced people from the worst affected areas facing hardship, take their animals, the most valuable property to sell them in cheap rates. There are reports that buffaloes, cows, goats the herdsmen and farmers are selling at 25 percent amount against its exact value. For example those cows of Rs100,000 are being sold at Rs25,000, buffaloes of Rs125,000 are being sold at Rs30-40000. The families feeling them insecure believe that they should live on their own instead of waiting for the government. The people have almost lost their trust and hope that the ruling leaders will come for their rescue. It is the common situation in almost the entire affected districts.
Immediate Need
In fact immediate need of the people is safe shelter/ tent where they may live in rains. The displaced families have lost each and everything in the devastation.
Since there is mass migration people need tents to live safe
Those marooned in the areas disconnected from the rest of country want to rescue them hurriedly
Food, NFIS, potable water are in the urgent of the people.
Regards
Shoaib Habib Memon
Thatta-Sindh
Cell.0314 2090252
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