Daily Update of Torrential Rain and Flood situation across the country – August 04, 2010 at 9:30 pm

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Daily Assessment Updates on Torrential Rain and Flood Situation in Pakistan

August 4th, 2010

Overview:

Country-wide torrential rains caused unprecedented and outrageous floods throughout Pakistan except in Sindh where minor damages are reported. The current spate of torrential rains and flash floods started on 21st July 2010. Initially it played havoc in eastern parts of Baluchistan which includes: Barkhan, Kohlu, Sibi, Jafferabad and Naseerabad districts. The relief operations in the affected areas of Baluchistan were not over yet, when floods struck district Rajanpur, Layya and Gujranwala in Punjab. Subsequently, the torrential rains and tides of floods turned towards Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KPK) and Azad Jammu & Kashmir and engulfed various small and large towns in these areas. The most affected areas in KPK are: Shangla, Swat, Minghora, Mansehra, Charsadda, Noshehra towns, where routine life has come to a complete halt and affected communities in most parts of KPK are still waiting for rescue and relief.

Initial reports reveals that around 2.5 million people have been affected by worst floods in the country and death toll have rose to 1600 people. It is feared that the number of death will soar further once the communication links are re-established. The government authorities, armed forces and humanitarian organizations, particularly NGOs, have started a major rescue effort to reach out to affected communities to provide them humanitarian assistance during their distress movements.

In order to facilitate coordinated humanitarian response in the affected areas and enable humanitarian organizations to have substantial planning for their humanitarian activities, SPO, with the support of its partner organizations, initiated rapid assessments in the affected areas and share it with relevant stakeholders in the form of daily update. Date-wise situational update and rapid assessments of damages caused by torrential rains and flood are available on SPO website and can be accessed on URL http://www.spopk.org.

Daily update for 4th August 2010, providing details of SPO’s response to the emergency situation and relief activities being carried out for mitigation of the miseries of affected communities across the country, is provided below:

Gilgit Baltistan:

Hither to access to the affected areas of Gilgit Baltistan has been very limited thus there was not coming enough assessment reports, providing details of damages caused by torrential rains and flooding in the area  but now it seems that rapid assessments are trickling down. We have received assessment reports for a few villages of Chitral from our partner organizations and same are provided below:

Booni Union Council Charun Booni

 

Private Properties
S#	Infrastructure	Damages	Affected Population
1	Full damaged houses	4	32
2	Extremely vulnerable houses	61	488
3	Cultivated Land	3 Sq km	914
4	Forests	4 Sq km	1414
5	Livestock	40	212
6	Shop	6	54
Public Properties
1	Jamat Khanas	1	500
2	Mosque	1	140
3	Pipe Line	3 km	11,415
4	Jeep able Bridge	2	4460
5	Pedestrian Bridge	3	6000
6	Link Road	4 km	6147
7	Micro Hydro Power Station	1	2934
8	Electric Pole	6	2934
9	Water Mills	6	3212
10	Graves	11	2924

 

Chunj Village Mastuj, Union Council Mastuj

Private Properties
S#	Infrastructure	Damages	Affected Population
1	Full damaged houses	35	280
2	Partially damaged house hold	56	504
3	Extremely vurnerable houses	25	175
4	Cultivated Land	4 Sq km	1200
5	Forest	3 Sq km	1000
6	Livestock	15	120
7	Shop	2	16
Public Properties
1	Pipe Line	80 feet	1050

 

Laspure Village Mastuj, Union Council

Private Properties
S#	Infrastructure	Damages	Affected Population
1	Full damaged houses	4	36
2	Extremely vulnerable houses	3	24
3	Cultivated Land	1 Sq km	500
4	Forests	1 Sq km	700
5	Livestock	2	10
6	Shop	2	18
Public Properties
1	Irrigation Channel	100 feet	500

 

Broke Laspure, Union Council Laspure

Private Properties
S#	Infrastructure	Damages	Affected Population
1	Full damaged houses	3	28
2	Extremely vulnerable houses	2	20
6	Shop	2	18
Public Properties
1	Irrigation Channel	100 feet	500
2	Link Road	1 km	1200

 

Khuz Village, Union Council Mastuj

Private Properties
S#	Infrastructure	Damages	Affected Population
1	Full damaged houses	3	28
2	Extremely vulnerable houses	2	20
Public Properties
1	Irrigation Channel	100 feet	500

Gazen Village Mastuj (120 km Away from Mastuj and 250 km away from Chitral Union Council Yarkhum

Private Properties
S#	Infrastructure	Damages	Affected Population
1	Full damaged houses	12	108
2	Extremely vurnerable houses	10	90
3	Cultivated Land	1.5 Sq km	500
4	Forest	4 Sq km	1200
5	Livestock	25	150
6	Shop	1	8
Public Properties
1	Irrigation Channels	150 feet	1500
2	Link Road	1 km	1500

 

Punjab Province:

District Muzaffar Ghar:

Keeping in view the imminent threat of flooding in the area, around 300, 000 persons moved out from Kotudu to to safer places in Muzaffarghar city and Multan. The government agencies were trying to save KAPCO and Lal-Peer Thermal Power Stations. The safety bunds were broken from the side of populated areas and efforts were being made for the maximum safety of human and infrastructures.

As per the information office of the district government, water was entering from two sides into city Muzaffarghar, because two canals; Kaleri Canal and Daneshwa’s had breached at various places. The water was reported to be entering into city from Multan road side and from Bloach Nagar.

District government, today issued warnings to Oil refinery of Gujrat Kasba and KAPCO and asked the for taking precautionary measure for possible flooding of these areas.

Till the filling of this report, following damages were reported by SPO Partner organizations:

 

No. of affected villages	More than 1500
Deaths	00 no reports yet
Injuries	More than 100
Livestock	100
Houses (totally/partially)	1500 / 500 = 2000
Agricultures	More than 130,000 acres
Infrastructures	18 km roads
	06 primary schools
	01 dispensary
Families displaced	300,000

 

 

 

 

Disrrict  Rajan Pur:

 

Keeping in view the eminent threat posed by  8,00,000 cusecs of floodwaters approaching towards Rajanpur, local administration issued warnings and directed the residents to move towards safer places. The mazar of sufi poet Hazrat Khawaja Fareed was closed and evacuation of local residents was in progress.

 

 

Rapid assessments carried out by SPO partner organizations for hither to sustained damages, caused due Torrential Rains and Flash Floods in the area, reveals following damages:

 

 

 

 

 

No. of affected peoples	100,000
No. of families affected	25,000
Agricultural land spill	262,000 acres
Acreage of Crops damaged	90,000 acres
No. Union Council affected	35
Areas affected	05 UCs of tehsil Rajan Pur
	20 UCs of tehsil Jampur and 10 UCs of Rojan

 

District Layyah:

During rapid assessment by SPO team and its partner organization, hither to following damages have been reported:

 

No. of UCs affected	06 completely
No. of affected villages	120 while 60 villages damaged badly
Deaths	06
Injuries	100
Livestock	1000
Houses (tatally / partially)	1500 / 500 = 2000 estomated, the figure may increase, because access to villages is not available.
Agricultures	22 x 16 km areas totally inundated
Infrastructures	120 km roads
	50 small bridges constructed on road
	06 high schools
	100 primary school
	03 BHU
Families displaced	36,000

 

 

 

 

District Rahim Yar Khan:

 

As per the information received from CSOs, the safety bund of tehsil Khanpur broken at 11:00 am today and now water is flowing towards the city area of tehsil Khanpur.  Army and other departments were trying to control the situation, building dikes around the breached bunds. If these agencies do not succeed in overcome the situation, then water may reach in city of Khanpur or even in Rahim Yaar Khan.

 

 

As per reports, village chakrani is under 10 feet water for previous 24 hours, and 350 residents of the area are still awaiting rescue through boats. So far, their calls for rescuing them to safer places were not responded by the authorities.

 

 

Rapid Assessment are being carried out and until now following damages have been reported in the area of district Rahim Yar Khan

 

 

 

 

 

No. of UCs affected	20 completely
Affected villages	500 villages damaged badly
Deaths	00
Injuries	12
Livestock	500
Houses (totally / partially)	2000 / 500 = 2500 estimated, the figure may increase, because access to villages is not available
Agricultures	12 x 100 km area totally under water
Infrastructure	200 km road
	20 small bridges on road are under water
	More than 50 schools are under water
Families displaced	32000

 

SPO Regional teams are working with relevant stakeholders at regional level for relief and mitigation of miseries of the affected communities and coordinating relief operation in the areas. For further details or any other relevant information, you may contact SPO staff at following locations:

Islamabad:

Mr. Malick Shahbaz Ahmed	0300-5556324, 051-2298892, 8316890
Syed Shahan Abbas	0321-9696177, 051-2298892, 8316890
Mr. Azhar Ghumro	0300-9712236, 051-2298892, 8316890
Mr. Noor Baloch	0321-2290286, 051-2298892, 8316890

Azad Jammu & Kashmir:

Mr. Qamar Zaman (Muzaffarabad)	0300-5179530, 05822-434432, 05822-434432
Mr. Attique-ur-Rehman  (Neelum)	05821-456574
Mr. Tabraiz Shamsi (Bagh)	0331-8210911, 05823-445290
Mr. Tabassam Shahzad (Bagh)	0345-2603015, 05823-445290

Quetta:

Mr. Mukhtiar Chalgari	0345-8300130
Ms. Fouzia Khajjaz	0333-7931296
Mr. Farooq Magsi	0301-3719957

Multan:

Mr. Jam Jamshaid	0300-6360162
Mr. Shams Nazir	0300-6105885

D.I.Khan:

Mr. Shaffiullah	0966-713231, 0966-712231
Mr. Asghar Ali	0966-713231, 0966-712231

Peshawar:

Mr. Arshad Haroon	091-5810021
Mr.Ijaz Durrani	0332-9293101
Mr.Jalal	03465317559