INUNDATION IN INDIA
UPPER SIND FLOODS
SITUATION MORE SERIOUS
100 VILLAGES SWEPT AWAY
DKLHi, July 30
FJ/opdg ip life lYppor Sind during the Inst week, have caused a serious position; Over. 100 villages have been washed away and hundreds of others are threatened. The swollen river Indus burst, its banks for a distance of two miles and inundated over 150 miles of countryside, destroying crops and cattle and rendering thousands of villagers homeless and desolate.
The damage is estimated at nearly £1.000,000.
■ The stricken people are fleeing with scanty belongings in rafts and boats. They, arrive at places seeking safety only to find these tiro also in danger of being engulfed.
Sixty thousand inhabitants of Shikarpur evacuated the city, which is now submerged to a depth of six .feet- ,by floods from two directions.
‘ Gangs of brigands, driven from their jungle retreats by the inundation, are terrorising the refugees.
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Stratford Evening Post, Issue 8, 31 July 1930, Page 8
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