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40-foot breach in safety dyke threatens Dadu city
[Pak Daily Times] A 40-foot wide breach in FP embankment at Allah Yarani is threatening Dadu city, a private TV channel reported on Tuesday.
| I'm no civil engineer, but it seems to me a 40' breach is almost the same as no embankment at all. I hope I'm wrong. |
Authorities are making frantic efforts to save Dadu, a city of over 300,000, after the breach developed in the protective embankment near Allah Yarani point in MNV Drain.
The floodwater earlier hit Mehar, Khairpur Nathan Shah and Juhi in Dadu district. The latest breach has triggered a mass exodus and the locals are trying to move to safer places.
| Smart locals. They've learnt from the experience of others. Hopefully they took supplies with them, as they'll get little to nothing from aid agencies. |
According to Dadu District Coordination Officer Muhammad Iqbal Memon, army personnel have been deployed along the MNV Drain.
| It's nice to see the Pakistani army doing something other than shoot across the Indian border to cover jihadi incursions. |
Around 80 percent of Juhi's population of 60,000 has already fled to safer areas, the channel reported.
Pakistan Army engineers have opened the roads connecting Sindh and Balochistan in Dera Murad Jamali, Mangoli, Goth Jani, Ahmedpur, Dolatpur and Garhi Rahim Dad up to Thal for all types of traffic.
| That sounds like a job of work. |
They have also plugged the breaches in Muzaffargarh Canal and Rangpur Canal. The engineers, in collaboration with the civil government, are now working to reopen the road link between Dera Allah Yar and Jacobabad.
High flood:
According to a report issued by Federal Flood Commission (FFC), the Indus River is still in high flood situation at Kotri Barrage and this situation is expected to continue during the next four to five days. However, the river is in low flood in Chashma-Taunsa, Taunsa-Guddu and Guddu-Sukkur reaches, the report said.
Posted by: Fred 2010-09-08 |
