Relief and rescue: Army evacuates 4,305 flood victims

RAWALPINDI: Soldiers have evacuated 4,305 flood-affected people from inundated areas of Sindh and Balochistan and moved them to safer places, the Inter-Services Public Relations said on Sunday. The army aviation has detailed six helicopters for rescue and relief activities. Some 1,200 troops have deployed to evacuate the flood victims in Kandkot, Naseerabad, Jacobabad and Dera Murad Jamali. The military has distributed 22 tons of rations at Dera Murad Jamali and Loralai during relief and rescue operations in the flood-affected areas of Sindh and Balochistan. It has also established a mobile field hospital at Dera Murad Jamali and treated 1,200 patients, With the help of civil administration of District Jacobabad, the army has established a tent village, in which cooked food, bottled water and medicines have been provided to the flood affected people.

Published in The Express Tribune, September 17^th, 2012.