17 die in floods, lightning

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Ongoing flood has killed at least 17 in Noushehro Feroz, Badin, Sanghar and Hyderabad.
According to media reports, the torrential rains continued to lash parts of Sindh and Balochistan provinces, perishing 11 people in various incidents.

Six people were killed by lightening in Sanghar district on Thursday morning and directives have been issued to evacuate Jhuddu and Naukot. Floodwater inundated several more areas of Badin including Baghra Memon, Kadhan, Malkani and Ahmed Rajukay with residents forced to take refuge on rooftops.

The army and navy personnel are busy shifting stranded people, especially from coastal belt to safer places. The district administration has set up 142 relief camps at different points to accommodate more than 40,000 displaced people.

A road linking Mirpur Khas and Tharpakar has been closed at Roshanabad while water is still gushing out of two broken doors of Ranikot Dam, Jamshoro, destroying Sann Railways track, which cut off rail links between Larkana, Dadu, Sehwan, Jamshoro and Karachi.

The rains pulled down two barracks of prisoners and residence of jail superintendent in Sanghar while a 30-foot-wide breach in a stream near Talha Town of Umarkot deluged vast swaths of land.

National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) Chairman Zafar Iqbal Qadir said a United Nations mission would visit the affected areas to make an estimate of the losses caused by floods.

Driving rains paralysed life in Sindh, where gastro among other epidemics is playing havoc with the lives of affectees.