Awaiting Help: Breach in saline drain inundates villages

HYDERABAD: Hundreds of villages and acres of crops are inundated and people are stranded in four union councils of Mirpur Bathoro. People are waiting for help in Jhok Sharif, Daria Khan Soho, Bathoro and Mehr Shah. There is a shortage of food and water and people are evacuating the area. The breach in the saline drainage canal in Karo Ghongar is flooding the area.



Published in The Express Tribune, August 21^st, 2011.