The National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) reported 12 more deaths on Wednesday due to flash floods, taking the death toll to 1,355. The total number of injured reached 12,722 after two more were reported injured.
The devastation from floods is far from over and death toll continues to rise. In the Dadu district, a dyke of the Indus Link RD-5 drainage channel failed Wednesday night after water from Mannchar Lake flew back towards the Indus Link.
The Indus Link takes water from the catchment area of the Manchhar Lake to the River Indus. Water from the Manchhar Lake which is at the overtopping point and being drained through two controlled breaches performed on its dykes this week flew north and entered the Indus Link causing the dyke to fail.
The development came hours after a dyke failed in the Thatta district and inundated several villages.
However, the water from Manchhar Lake still poses threat to Bhan Saeedabad city.
A relief train bogged down near Sehwan on the Kotri-Dadu section of the railway track, that remains submerged for weeks.
The deluges that wreaked havoc in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa last month, spread in the plains of South Punjab and Sindh.
Large Swathes of land in the Sindh province remain submerged in around 4 feet deep water, which is not being drained.
Death toll from floods hits 1,355 as 12 more die
