Police has vacated shanty settlements from Gadap Town, after they received warning of flooding in the Hub Dam.
KARACHI: Rainwater on Thursday inundated the streets of Saadi Garden, a housing scheme at Saadi Town after a nearby drain flooded.
Residents were shocked to see rainwater inundating their streets. They claimed that if the rain drain was not cleaned with special machinery water will flood their homes.
Meanwhile police has vacated shanty settlements from Gadap Town, after they received warning of flooding in the Hub Dam.
During a visit to the affected area Karachi Commissioner Aijaz Ahmed Khan said, that in the 2013 monsoon the same area had become inundated with rainwater. “An issue which took years to pile cannot be solved in a single day.”