ISLAMABAD, Aug 21 : Around 150,000 people were forced to move to higher ground as floodwater from a freshly swollen Indus River submerged dozens more towns and villages in the south on Saturday.Officials expect the floodwater nationwide will recede in the next few days as the last river torrents empty into the Arabian Sea.According to a private news channel, survivors may find little left when the return home, however, the water has washed away houses, roads, bridges and crops vital to livelihoods.
Already, 600,000 people were in relief camps set up in Sindh province during the flooding over the past month.
At one relief camp in Sukkur 32 year old Allah Rakhi gave birth to a baby girl. As the latest surge approached on Saturday, Jamil Soomro, a spokesman for the provincial government, said authorities have evacuated more than 150,000 people from interior parts of Sindh in the past 24 hours.
At one relief camp in Sukkur 32 year old Allah Rakhi gave birth to a baby girl. As the latest surge approached on Saturday, Jamil Soomro, a spokesman for the provincial government, said authorities have evacuated more than 150,000 people from interior parts of Sindh in the past 24 hours.
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