Today I am going to tell you about Supreme Flood 2010 cross District Kamber Shahdadkot. Nawabzada Mir Nadir Khan Magsi Save Shahdadkot City From Flood 2010. In this article, I share the story from Issued Letter to Immediate Leave Shahdadkot Town.
The district administration issued on Sunday a 'last warning' to people still living in Shahdadkot to immediately leave the town. Qambar-Shahdadkot District Coordination Officer Ghulam Yaseen Shar said that rising waves of floodwaters gushing out of breaches in the Tori and Begari canals were moving towards the town of 400,000 people. A temporary embankment around the town has already been struck.Sindh Food Minister Mir Nadir Ali Magsi said: "We did not expect such a calamity."
The waters are inundating the road and advancing menacingly towards Qubo Saeed Khan.
The minister said the water level had risen to eight and a half feet. If the authorities had foreseen such a situation they would have built a higher embankment to save the town, he said.
Vast areas along the dyke are under water and only traces of submerged villages can be seen.
Boats of the navy and the Pakistan Fisherfolk forum are rescuing marooned people.
Mr Magsi said hundreds of people who had taken shelter along the banks of the Saifullah Magsi branch had to be evacuated. "We urgently need navy boats and helicopters to save them."
Yaseen Tunio of the fisherfolk forum said more than 300 families were stranded in Shahpur Jamali, Boqo Jamali and Kot Gurgaig villages. "We are using two boats to rescue them."
The minister said that although the government had made the best possible efforts to protect the town it was still under threat because there had been a sudden and unexpected rise in the flow of floodwaters.
Wajid Chandio, former nazim of Shahdadkot, said at least 50 people were marooned in the submerged Aitbar Khan Chandio village near the motorway bypass and boats were not available to rescue them.
Two large excavators and dumpers full of stones brought in by the National Highway Authority are being used to protect the motorway. MNA Ramesh Lal and Mir Mithal Khan Mughiri are monitoring the situation in the area.
Mr Lal said President Asif Ali Zardari had ordered the NHA to strengthen the dyke and heavy machinery had been deployed to save the town.
A sudden flow of floodwaters from six watercourses and siphons under the motorway was adding to the threat to the town.
The DCO admitted that efforts to stem the flow of watercourses under the motorway had failed.
The water level along the dyke is constantly rising and the road link between Shahdadkot and Qubo Saeed Khan has been cut, leaving many families stranded in the town.
Army helicopters evacuated 15 families from the town.
Nadir Magsi said his brother Mir Aamir Magsi had visited Shahdadkot.
Floodwaters moving towards Ratodero inundated a graveyard and some historical monuments in Darya Khan Mastoi and Sharbat Brohi villages.
According to officials, seepages from the newly-built embankment were continuing and the flow of water diverted towards the Hamal lake was slow.
Shahdadkot town wore a deserted look with only one shopkeeper seen selling mangoes on Sunday.
Two families were waiting for transport at the Koto-Moto chowk, the business hub in the town. The 1.5km long main bazaar was also deserted.
Grain merchant Nabi Bakhsh Baloch was building a wall in front of his shops to save his stocks. "I have shifted some grain but could not move all of it," he said.
Siddik Abro, a human rights activist, said he had left his home along with his family.
The owner of a petrol pump had removed all his equipment.
Two people died of gastroenteritis in relief camps in Larkana.
The number of displaced people in camps in Larkana increased to 60,000, DCO Hassan Naqvi said.
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