Source: Dawn
Date: 06 Sep, 2010
LARKANA, Sept 5: More than 30,000 people stranded in Kachho and Qubo Saeed Khan areas are fast running out of food and are in need of immediate help.
Most of the people of Shahdadkot, Garhi Khairo and Jafferabad and Naseerabad (Balochistan) have moved to Kachho, Marri ja Quba and Barija after the floods.
Ghaffar Pandrani, coordinator of NGOs Development Society, said that about 75,000 people had moved out of Shahdadkot, Qubo Saeed Khan, Ghari Khero and Jafferabad. All land routes to Kachho are closed and access to the area for relief services is limited.
Nisar Khoso, a social worker from Katchee Pul, said that stagnating water would take at least a month to recede and people were trapped with all road links disconnected, food stocks exhausted and almost non-existent medical facilities.
He said that three to four people were dying daily of different diseases in Kachho area and called for immediate evacuation of the stranded people. In Bago Daro, 15 kms from Shahdadkot, people who had taken shelter in a graveyard were also facing food shortages, said Gada Hussain Bhatti of Shahdadkot.
Abdul Sattar Chandio, a resident of Kachho area, told Dawn on phone that people had to go to Jhal Magsi to buy food at highly exorbitant rates.
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