LAHORE: Due to the ongoing monsoon rains in the catchment areas, Spillways of Tarbela Dam were opened on Sunday as the water level started rising rapidly.
Sirens of danger were blown before opening the spillways. People living in the vicinity of the dam have been directed to shift to safer places.
Meanwhile, the flash flood of River Indus has now entered Sindh. The Provincial Disaster Management Authority told that the flood water has inundated thousands of acres of land in Katcha area of Ghotki District. The District government has sought help from the PDMA to evacuate the people marooned in flood water.
The Indus River is flowing in high flood at Taunsa‚ while its water level is falling. It is in low food at Kalabagh‚ Chashma and Tarbela.
According to the Flood Warning Centre Lahore‚ the Chenab River is in medium flood at Qadirabad and Marala. The river is in low flood at Tarimmu‚ and Khanki.
About the nullahs of Sialkot and Narowal district‚ it said the Palku nullah is flowing in high flood. Aik nullah is flowing in low flood and Dek is flowing normal.
High flood in River Chenab is likely to enter in the limits of Multan and Muzaffargarh districts today.
District Administration Multan has set up sixteen relief camps and four companies of Pak Army have been deployed for relief and rescue work.One thousand tents and medicines along with food items have also been arranged for flood affected people.
Flood emergency has been declared in Vehari as India released another over one hundred thousand cusecs of water in River Sutlej.
Leaves of officials of Rescue-1122‚ Defence‚ Health and Irrigation departments have been cancelled. Punjab Relief Commissioner Nadeem Ashraf has said that on the directives of Chief Minister Punjab‚ relief items have been dispatched to eight districts of the province to provide relief to the flood victims.
Talking to newsmen in Lahore today‚ he said that one hundred tents and three hundred food sacks have been sent to Hafizabad and four hundred tents and one thousand food packs to Layyah for the flood-affected people.
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