OKARA: Rao Sikandar Chowk railway underpass at Central Benazir Avenue has been submerged by eight-foot rainwater for the last two days.

Motorists and passersby are facing a great deal of inconvenience in moving to either side.

During a visit to the underpass, this correspondent saw a Municipal Corporation (MC) staffer who was on duty to stop people ahead of the underpass to avoid any eventuality.

The official told this correspondent that the MC had put a pump for disposal of the rainwater from the underpass but some people protested that the water would be accumulated on the main road which already had water.

He said the railway authorities also stopped them from throwing away the water on the track.

The sewerage drain was already filled with rain-water and its outlets were choked.

GIRL BURIED ALIVE: A nine-year-old girl was buried alive while her sister was recovered from debris after roof of their house collapsed on Monday night at Kot Jan Muhammad, some 2-kmin south of the city.

As per Rescue 1122, Majid`s daughters Kinza and Ambreen were asleep when the roof of the rainhit house caved in. As a result Ambreen was buried alive and Kinza suffered multiple injuries and was shifted to city DHQ hospital.

SECURITY PLAN: The district police have chalked out a security plan in connection with Muharram as 1,809 personnel including Elite Force Jawans will preform duty.

Thirty police and nine Elite Force mobile vans would patrol round the clock. Police pickets at all the entry and exit points of the district have been established. There will be 639 majalis and 172 processions.