Sunday, August 22, 2010

Four dead bodies found in flood-hit Jafarabad


JAFARABAD: Four dead bodies have been recovered from the flood-ravaged areas of Jafarabad District in Sindh on Sunday.

Earlier, two more women died of gastroenteritis in Jafarabad District Sunday, while thousands of flood victims had been in desperate need of government’s help for the past eight days.

After wreaking havoc in Sindh, the deluge struck Dera Allah Yar, headquarter of Jafarabad, inundating more than 230 villages and leaving thousands of people homeless.

A large number of people had to take shelter in mosques. The number of deaths caused by gastro outbreak in Jafarabad rose to four.

The flood devastated 20 more villages in Sohbatpur and headed to Jhanda Talab