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Chenab floodwaters enter Multan,
Muzaffargarh areas
Pakistan
Times
Wire Service
MULTAN: Chenab river
floodwaters have ente red Multan and Muzaffargarh areas. The river flood
surge has hit several villages of Kabirwala, Multan and Muzaffargarh also
damaging the standing crops.
Authorities have established relief camps for flood victims in Multan, while
people living within limits of the protective Bunds [embankment] are being
evacuated to safer places.
People are transporting their household things by boats to the safer places.
Yet still a large number of the people are marooned in the flood-hit riveran
areas. They have said that they could not evacuate from the area due to lack
of boats and other means.
14 dead, 11 Wounded
As reported by Pakistan's first independent daily E-newspaper 'Pakistan
Times' in its earlier edition today, Monday, at least 14 people killed
and 11 others seriously wounded when a relief boat carrying flood affectees
to safe points, hit electricity poles in Rojahan Mazari on Monday morning.
The victims included four children and six women, Police said by adding; the
injured have been shifted to relief camps for treatment and condition of
four women was told critical.●
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