Thatta: Floodwaters have made another break in the levees protecting a southern Pakistani city, as thousands of residents fled for high ground and left the city nearly empty.
Both sides of the 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 Baksh Kalhoro, a 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 for Muslim saints.
He said the latest levee breach, which happened on Saturday, could leave the outskirts of Thatta flooded by later in the day.
People displaced
by flooding reach for food
aid thrown by a volunteer
during distribution outside a
temporary camp operated by
the Pakistan Army, in Sukkur.
Image Credit: AFP
A flood victim stands
in a queue with others to get
food handouts while taking
refuge with her family in a
relief camp for flood victims
in Sukkur, in Sindh province
yesterday.
Image Credit: Reuters
A boy stands alongside
the rubble in Aza Kheil, some
40 kms from Peshawar.
Image Credit: AFP
