[Pak Daily Times] Floodwaters made another break on Saturday in the levee protecting Thatta city, as thousands of residents fled for high ground and left the city nearly empty.Both sides of the area's main road were crowded with people from Thatta and nearby flooded villages fleeing the floodwaters. Many had spent the night sleeping out in the open.
Hadi Bakhsh Kalhoro, the Thatta disaster management official, said more than 175,000 people had left the city, leaving few behind.
Some are heading for nearby towns or cities, he said, with thousands also headed for the high ground of an ancient graveyard.
He said the latest levee breach had happened early on Saturday and would worsen the flooding situation.
Protest: Flood victims blocked a road in Thatta to protest the shortage of aid, most of which is randomly thrown from trucks into crowds of needy people.
"The people who come here to give us food treat us like beggars. They just throw the food. It is humiliating," said 80-year-old Karima, who uses only one name. She was living in the graveyard with more than two dozen relatives.
The floods also displaced thousands of minority Hindus in Sindh. About 3,000 were living at a centuries-old Hindu temple inside the sprawling graveyard.
Meanwhile, authorities have been battling for days to save Shahdadkot, raising an embankment several kilometres long as the water has crept higher.