Rawalpindi (Web Desk): Pakistan Army continues the rescue and relief operation across the country after several regions were inundated by record rainfall, says the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR).
According to the ISPR’s statement issued on Tuesday, in Sindh, rescue operations were conducted in Hyderabad, Sanghar, Badin, Thatta, Jamshoro, Noshero Feroz and other districts. Two army helicopters were flown from Karachi to the affected areas of interior Sindh to speed up rescue and relief efforts, it added.
Pak Army’s media wing maintained that rations were also distributed in the affected areas and medical aid was provided to the people, adding that the army continued its assistance to the civil administration of Punjab and helicopters distributed relief supplies to the flood-hit people in far-flung and inaccessible areas of the Dera Ghazi Khan district and flew four sorties for the most affected areas including Mubarki, Fazla Katch, Basti Buzdar.
The military’s statement further said that tents and rations were transported to the flood victims. “In Balochistan, the army and Frontier Corps troops assisted the provincial administration in Quetta, Pishin, Qila Saif Ullah, Ziarat, Zhob, Loralai and Noshki,” read the statement.
Relief camps were established in Naseerabad, Duki and Lasbela areas, the ISPR said, adding that the army and FC medical camps were also set up in inundated areas.
The ISPR further said that the Frontier Corps troops also assisted the local authorities in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) and conducted relief operations in Chitral and other flood-hit areas.