MEHAR, Pakistan, Sept. 4 (UPI) -- Floodwaters in Pakistan have reached the town of Khairpur Nathan Shah and were headed toward Mehar, where officials ordered residents to evacuate.
Warnings about waters reaching Khairpur Nathan Shah began Wednesday with three 50-foot-wide breaches of the Main Nara Valley drain, Dawn reported.
Dawn said by Saturday final evacuation warnings were issued for residents of Mehar, a town of 30,000 residents, and that water levels had risen to 6 feet in Khairpur Nathan Shah, flooding power stations, homes, a police station and businesses.
Some 30 other villages in the area were threatened or underwater, as families fled to open camp sites on a nearby embankment.
Numerous breaches were also reported threatening the town of Johi. About 20 villages around Thareri Mohbat and the towns of Bello Patan and Kari Mori were also flooded.
In New York at the United Nations, Pakistan's Ambassador Abdullah Hussain Haroon appealed for more international aid at a news conference attended by Mahatma Gandhi's grandson Rajmohan Gandhi, a research professor at the University of Illinois' Center for South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies.
"We have to get the conscience of the world working on this jointly," Gandhi said.
The floods that began with the monsoon season in July have reportedly covered about one-fifth of the country and claimed at least 1,500 lives, CNN reported.
