- Title: Pakistan to breach main highway to protect town of Dadu from floods
- Date: 12th September 2022
- Summary: DADU DISTRICT COMMISSIONER SYED MURTAZA ALI SHAH LOOKING AT MOBILE PHONE (SOUNDBITE) (English) DADU DISTRICT COMMISSIONER, SYED MURTAZA ALI SHAH, SAYING: "The rainfall across the country also ends up passing through (the) river Indus right through the district of Dadu. So, definitely, all the other (flood hit) parts (of the country) by the grace of God I would say, are going for the rehabilitation process, but we still are on our toes until and unless these floods, these waters, these hill torrents are finally passed." FLOOD WATERS MOVING (SOUNDBITE) (English) DADU DISTRICT COMMISSIONER, SYED MURTAZA ALI SHAH, SAYING: "At the moment, 90% of (the) district Dadu is under water; it is inundated. Only three major towns, I would say, Dadu, which is still under threat, we are trying to protect it by erecting a ring embankment. Mehar is another town. Mehar town was also given a ring dike to protect the urban areas, and Johi town also, we also provided them with all the machinery and funds to construct their ring dike, so that the major towns could be saved." BOY WALKING PAST SIGN READING (Urdu): “DADU 7km†BOY WALKING PAST DADU JAIL SIGNBOARD AT DADU JAIL READING (English): “DISTRICT PRISON AND CORRECTIONAL FACILITY DADU†POLICEMAN STANDING OUTSIDE DADU JAIL SPADE DIGGING EARTH VARIOUS OF PAKISTANI ARMY SOLDIERS USING SPADES, CONSTRUCTING DIKE ELECTRICAL POWER TRANSFORMERS VARIOUS OF ARMY SOLDIERS USING SPADES, CONSTRUCTING DIKE SANDBAGS BOOTS STOMPING ON SANDBAGS VARIOUS OF SOLDIERS MOVING SANDBAGS, BUILDING DIKE WOMEN WASHING CLOTHES AT LAKE VARIOUS OF MAN WALKING WITH CAMEL
- Embargoed: 26th September 2022 03:16
- Keywords: Dadu Pakistan climate change flooding floods
- Location: DADU, SINDH, PAKISTAN
- City: DADU, SINDH, PAKISTAN
- Country: Pakistan
- Topics: Asia / Pacific,Disaster/Accidents,Floods
- Reuters ID: LVA003456811092022RP1
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9
- Story Text: Authorities in southern Pakistan plan to breach the country's Indus Highway, a key transport link, to allow water to flow and prevent flooding in the town of Dadu, officials said on Sunday (September 11).
Syed Murtaza Ali Shah, District Commissioner of Dadu told Reuters on Sunday that 90% of the Dadu district was inundated, and was still under threat.
"We are trying to protect it, by erecting a ring embankment," he said, adding that the government had provided all the machinery and material required to build a dike around the other two major towns of the district.
There are at least three points in Dadu district where the Indus Highway is submerged, with traffic suspended for weeks, while Pakistan's other highway connecting the north and south has also been badly hit by the flood waters.
More than 200 inmates from Dadu jail have been moved to Hyderabad, as the prison is situated in a depression, Shah added.
Floods from a record monsoon and glacial melt in the north of Pakistan have hit 33 million people and killed at least 1,391, washing away homes, roads, railways, livestock and crops.
Pakistan estimates the cost of the damage at $30 billion, and both the government and U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres have blamed the flooding, extreme weather and resulting devastation on climate change.
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