Rains ravage livestock in Sindh

12/09/2011
More than 120,000 cattle have died in the Sindh province of Pakistan because of heavy rains during this summer’s monsoon season, a local academic has said.

Professor Ismail Kumbhar of the Agriculture University of Tandojam said 64,000 cattle had died by September 4, but that this had almost doubled to 120,000 after a new spell of rain at the start of September.

Rains have hit 21 districts of Sindh, nine of them severely affected: Badin, Mirpurkhas, Tharparkar, Tando Muhammad Khan, Tando Allahyar, Matiari, Umerkot, Sanghar and Benazirabad.