Sindh to evacuate 50,000 as cyclone Biparjoy 600km away from Karachi.
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Govt launches evacuation drive from district Badin as cyclone Biparjoy moves closer to Pakistan.
As many as 50,000 people will be evacuated from the villages in District Badin under the Sindh government’s evacuation plan to avoid any loss in the wake of tropical cyclone Biparjoy which is rapidly closing in.
Currently, the Extremely Severe Cyclonic Storm (ESCS) lies about 600 kilometres south of Karachi, 580km south of Thatta, and 710km southeast of Ormara, after moving further northward during the last 12 hours.
“The ESCS Biparjoy is most likely to track further Northward until 14 June morning, then recurve Northeastward and cross between Keti Bandar (Southeast Sindh) and Indian Gujarat coast on 15 June afternoon as a Very Severe Cyclonic Storm (VSCS),” Pakistan Meteorological Department’s latest update on the storm stated.
Keeping in view the growing threat, the government had decided to evacuate the residential areas and other human settlements near the coast of Sindh as the risk of tropical cyclone Biparjoy present in the Arabian Sea escalates.
The evacuation drive began from the coastal areas of Badin, under which at least 2,000 people from the island of Shah Bandar were shifted to safe places.
Sindh Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah — along with Local Bodies Minister Nasir Shah, Sindh Chief Secretary Sohail Rajput — visited Shah Bandar area of the district.
