Dr Abdul Wahid Soomro (MNA Pakistan Peoples Party)

Thousands of people streamed back to this historic southern city where new levees hastily built from clay and stone held back floodwaters that have inundated much of Pakistan.
But thousands who fled the waters that inundated neighboring towns complained Monday about the shortage of food and water as they camped in a vast Muslim graveyard on a hill near Thatta city.
Hordes of people ran after vehicles distributing food and water near the graveyard, a chaotic effort that left many flood survivors — especially the old and infirm — with nothing. Some drank rainwater pooled on the ground.
“I cannot run after food and survive the maddening rush at this age of mine,” said 75-year-old Nasima Mai, who fled with her extended family, mostly women and children.
“They throw food from the truck like animals are given food,” she said.

Village Tando Hafiz Shah is submerged after increase of super flood down stream Kotri.
The population of the village was about 5000. Majority of people were evacuated out of Katcha area and shifted to safer places and in relief camps.
Flood water has started gushing toward another Katcha village Rajoo Nizamani near Jhirik.
Meanwhile entire Katcha area has been submerged and water has started hitting the embankments.
There are 26 vulnerable points on both sides of river embankments in this district.
The most vulnerable points include Soorjani, Monarki, Sonda-hilaya bund and MS bund.
The flood water breached the embankment of RBOD canal, over-topped KB feeder bind and started entering in it on Sunday. DCO Manzoor Shaikh, MNA Dr. Abdul Wahid Soomro, irrigation engineer Iqbal Palijo reached the site to control the water flow.
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FLOODS ravaged the southern city of Thatta in Pakistan leaving the town wrecked and virtually empty. More than 175,000 have vacated the town giving it an eerie look. The floodwaters broke through the third protective barrier made around the city on Saturday. People sought refuge in the higher reaches of the town that also included an ancient graveyard.

As chaos prevailed in Thatta today, main roads from both sides remained clogged with people who managed to make it to safer areas from nearby villages. With no basic amenities, people had to spend their night outside their homes.

Hadi Baksh Kalhoro, a disaster management official in Thatta, gave an estimated figure of 175,000 people fleeing from the city, only a few of them have been left behind. He further added that many of them were heading for nearby towns and cities.

KARACHI – Hundreds of thousands of Pakistanis were fleeing the Thatta district August 27 after the bloated Indus River crushed a levee and flooded new areas, officials said.

The UN said as many as 1m people have been displaced in the south since midweek.

More than 8m survivors need emergency assistance across the country.

About 1m residents have been displaced in Thatta and Qambar-Shahdadkot since August 25, UN spokesman Maurizio Giuliano said.

A 200-foot-wide breach that developed in the Surjani dike on the Indus River near Kot Alam marooned three towns in Thatta district – Sujawal, Mirpur Bathoro and Darro – having a population of 400,000, Sindh Irrigation Minister Jam Saifullah Dharejo said.

The flood could inundate Thatta city if it overcomes the nearby Bijora dike, he said.