PFF Daily Report Sep2

Flood water after breaching at Kot Alam and inundating Sujawal town and adjoining areas on Thursday hit coastal town Jatti, Thatta district flooded wide area. The areas touching Badin district have also come under threat to be inundated, as water is flowing fast. The people displaced from Jatti town and adjoining coastal villages have shifted their families to safer places in Badin district. The flood water had inundated parts of two union councils Murid Khoso and UC Kothi, comprising 4000 population. Hundreds of people have shifted their families and the process of evacuation by vehicles and boats is still going on. Some of the areas in Jatti being prone to disaster have also faced effects of recent cyclone PHET 2010. The displacement in the flood is worst, as the area has never witnessed the situation. The people have left everything back and shifted to safer places to avoid the human loss. Hardly few people could get their valuables and took out their livestock.
Intervention by Pakistan Fisherfolk Forum
PFF has shifted two boats to areas of Jatti and engaged some fishing boats and seven mini trucks to evacuate the people to safer places. The PFF volunteers earlier engaged in other areas of Thatta now have been shifted to work with other area activists to help the affected people. There is mass migration everywhere, the PFF rescue team observed while shifting the frightened people to safer places.
Updates from Thatta
Rainstorms and strong winds affected the relief work on Wednesday evening and fears were there that the more rains may disturb further the people living in the open without tents. Rainstorm compelled people living outside to shift to safer places, mostly inside the major Makli Graveyard just to protect their minor children.
Evacuation
Evacuation process is still going on. PFF team using one speed boat and two fishing boats and vehicles are making efforts to shift the people stranded in the flood water in their villages and towns. People were facing problems of tent shortage while rainstorm with strong winds hit the wide area. Some enraged people from low-caste Bagris, the worst victims of disaster and disliking together, staged protest demonstration in the vicinity, demanding tents and food. These families are the victims of disaster and disliking, as they complaint that they are being neglected because of their affiliation of low-caste community. Some of the people are living at isolated camps and did not have access to organizations working for the rescue and relief, helping affected families. PFF looking this situation now is trying to target the people, who were less beneficiaries and living in isolation. PFF also assured the protesting Bagri people that they will get food at their camps. PFF is providing food to 1500 families and water to 15000 individuals daily.
Shahdadkot—Qambar
Around 5000 families are still living at Saifullah Canal near Shahdadkot without food and relief facilities. The PFF is approaching District government and local legislators to provide ration and food items to supply them. PFF is happy to have won the confidence of the district government, local legislators, influential persons and the communities and trying to help the people still living in isolation. PFF volunteers during their rescue operation observed that 200 families were living at Patuja Shakh Village some 15 kilometers from Shahdadkot, who are reluctant to leave their abodes. These 200 families have set up their makeshift shelters at the embankment and looking enraged if somebody is trying to move to them for help. PFF received information that these people have also threatened their tribal chieftains of not to enter their village. It was observed that only law enforcing agency personnel may enter the village and take them out at camps. PFF found several people still stranded in villages under water where few families are still living in worst condition and need immediate help.
Medical Team returns back
PFF on the advice of the district government Shahdadkot took a team of doctors with medicines on a boat was proceeding to reach Qubo Saeed Khan town of Shahdadkot district, where people were reportedly in worst condition and need medical help. There was only way to reach the town from Patuja Shakh. When the PFF boats with rescue team and doctors reached close to the Patyuja Shakh village, the people showed muscles to resist if the boat reached close there. Fearful doctors asked PFF team to go back for their own safety. There was 7—8ft water and the people had found mounds near there where they have set up makeshift shelters for their families. But the entire area was under the flood water and they were living in the worst conditions without food, potable water and medical. There is no report about the accurate situation, because the people were looking so incensed, attacking those people who want to supply food, ration and other essential items to them. PFF team has conveyed the situation to the district government and the area legislators to take steps to bring these families to safe areas, because due to changing weather conditions their lives at risk.