Booni IDPs facing great problems.
CHITRAL: Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) of Booni facing great problems. Affected people of recently tremendous flood of Booni have been shifted in play ground of Booni in 55 tents but there is no water, no wash room no other civic facilities for these affected people. An aged woman Saeed Bibi told this scribe that we have been shifted in these camps and 4 to 5 families (only women members of each family) living in these tents but our male persons are sleeping in other place at police line Booni. We have no civic facilities in these camps even we have no food at Sahri (twilight) and Aftari times because there is no canteen, no hotel, restaurant nor any shop in the area. Nagina Azam said that we elder women face to set the whole night protecting our children from scorpions, mosquitoes and other insects because they sleeping on ground and there is no fan inside these temporary tents and we could not sleep even for a single minute. An other old lady said that our standing crops, cultivable land, irrigation channels, pipeline for water supply schemes and other property were washed away by flash flood and we have nothing at this time even we also face acute shortage of food and edible things. During the visit of this temporary tent village for IDPs by this scribe so many children were seen sleeping on the ground but they were in great trouble due to no pedestal fan in the tents and they were disturbing by mosquitoes who were moving here and there to save themselves from the biting of mosquitoes. A number of displaces people complained of non existing of health facilities although a tent for medical staff have been fixed but there was no staff in the camp during the visit of our correspondent. Affected people also complained of Focus Humanitarian Assistance who badly failed to support these affected people who gaining million of fund on the names of these affected people.
Internally displaced people appreciated cooperation by local police especially station house officer of Sultan Baig of police station Booni. So many aged women were seen setting outside of their tent in a very anxiety and worry condition thinking for safely returning to their houses. Majority of the displaced people demanded for restoration and maintenance of their irrigation channel, pipelines of water supply schemes to save them from starvation because if their irrigation channels were not restored immediately their remaining standing crops would be wreath and dried and they would have no other source of income to get grain and food items. They also demanded for protection bund around their houses to save them from flood in future and to be relaxed from present mentally tension and torture. It is worth to mention here that all irrigation channels, pipeline of water supply schemes for drinking water, bridges, link roads and infrastructures have been damaged by flash flood last week and people of Booni surviving in a very helpless condition. They have been shifted in a temporarily tent village but there is no civic facilities for these affected people they migrating to these tents at Evening times and go back to their houses and fields to protect them from flood by different ways.
Heavy Flood besieged residents of Brashgram and Susom valley at Karimabad.
CHITRAL: Thousands of inhabitants of Brashgram and Karimabad valley have been besieged due to washed away of their link bridges and roads by recently flash flood as a result these people have been besieged inside the valley and there is no way of escape. Muhammad Ali Shah a social worker of the area told on telephone to this scribe from Brashgram area that heavy flood is continue in Shah goal, Madashel goal, Darbin goad etc as a result roads and bridges of the entire valley were ruined. He said that due to disconnecting of land route of the valley there is acute shortage of food items and essential edible and civic things as well as there is no fuel in the area to run diesel generator for telephone exchange which is the only way of communication to inform affected people about heavy flow of flood. He said that there is no a single dispensary in the area nor any other health facilities and people of the area facing from phenomenal and different diseases. He appeal high ups of provincial as well as federal government to provide them food items and arrange for their safely escape from this flood and troubled area.
Meanwhile heavy flood also damaged 11 houses completely at Hosk village of Yarkhun area and 34 houses were partially damaged at Koj village of Mastuj area.
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