RAJANPUR The floodwater breached safety embankments on Friday evening and entered Mithan Kot city. The flood may cause heavy damage to the shrine of saint Khawaja Ghulam Farid and displace thousands of more people. Rajanpur city is already facing a threat of flood due to hill torrents. The flood in Rajanpur district has caused shortage of food and medicine, while communication and power supply systems in most of the areas of the district are already not functioning. The district faces threats of food shortage and outbreak of diseases as more hill torrents hit the region, adding up to the problems of the flood victims here. According to a tentative estimate, 0.4 million people have been affected. Unprecedented rains have caused hill torrents in the Sulaiman Range Mountains, hindering rescue and relief activities and causing more devastation as the water level is rising in the district. The flood has submerged scores of villages in the district. Jampur city is completely flooded with inundated schools and colleges, said a TMA official at Jampur. 323,938 acres of harvested land have been destroyed in the Rajanpur district due to torrential rains, hill torrents and flood, said the Spokesman at the DCO office, Rajanpur. He said that Rajanpur was one of the worst flood-hit districts. All the tehsil headquarters of the district are flooded while city area of Rojhan is constantly under the threat of a heavy flood, he said. The flood has caused heavy damage to livestock and crops in the area, he added. The Spokesman said that 27 relief camps have been established in the district to provide health and food services, adding they were not enough to cope with the situation as compared to the magnitude of the devastation. On the other hand, the flood victims claim that they are not getting any help. An affectee from Jampur said that his house was inundated which forced him to shift his family to his relatives house in Dera Ghazi Khan. The hill torrents from Sulaiman Range in Rajanpur have also affected the Katchi Canal, which is being built to supply water to Balochistan from Taunsa Barrage. The Government has failed to help the people, said a representative of a local NGO at Rojhan. He added that people were facing problem of food shortage as no government officials has arranged food for the flood victims. The MNAs and MPAs from the region have failed to serve and deliver the people, said another flood affectee. The water level is rising once again due to another spell of heavy rains in southern Punjab, which has worsened the situation and the next two days are critical for Rojhan city.