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 RAWALPINDI: Pakistan Army Engineers have opened the road links between Sindh and Balochistan from Dera Murad Jamali, Mangoli, Goth Jani, Ahmed Pur, Dolat Pur and Garhi Rahim Dad up to Thal for all types of traffic, and have also plugged the breaches in Muzaffargarh Canal and Rang Pur Canal. Army engineers, in collaboration with the civil government are working on opening the road link between Dera Allah Yar and Jacobabad. Army engineers have plugged the breaches at Tori near Ghora Ghat and Ghuspur in Sindh. The Pakistan army has evacuated 2,784 people from flood affected areas of Johi, Mehar and Dadu to safer places. The army distributed 86 tons of dry rations and provided cooked food to 34,447 people in Sajawal, Bathoro and Shiharpur in the last 24 hours. 40 trucks carrying 20,000 special Eid packages containing clothes, shoes, bangles and ration packets (35 kgs each) containing rice, pulses, oil, dry milk and tea have been delivered in the flood affected areas of Balochistan. The army has despatched three C-130 planes carrying tents and relief goods to Quetta for further distribution at Dera Murad Jamali. In southern Punjab, army troops have despatched 45 trucks of food items for flood victims. More than 150 military and civilian doctors are providing medical treatment to flood affected people. Pakistan Army Medical Corps along with Australian Medical teams are providing medical treatments to the patients in medical camps at Kot Addu. | |