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Two villages in Thatta district evacuated

  • Location Thatta
  • Date Aug 18 2010
  • Time 01:23
  • Category Risk of flooding      
  • Incident Incident
  • Nearby Incident Nearby Incident

Incident Report Description

The residents of two villages of katcha areas in Thatta district near Jhirik, Rajoo Nizamani and Tando Hafiz Shah, have been warned to evacuate toward safer places in view of the expected super flood to pass from here in this week. The population of Rajoo Nizamani is about 10000, while that of Tando Hafiz Shah is about 8000. Both villages are located within the katcha area within the embankments of Indus River.
Transport has been sent to these villages for evacuation. Rangers have been assigned to help evacuation of people in cooperation with local representatives. So far 77000 people have been evacuated from katcha areas, out of them about 40000 are housed in relief camps.
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