ISLAMABAD: China has gifted Pakistan with meteorological detectors that provide early warning of lightning, which will protect the people of Tharparkar from loss of life and property.
According to Director General of the Meteorological Department Mehr Sahibzad Khan, China has given 25 weather detectors worth US$1 million to Pakistan free of charge. The Chinese equipment will be able to predict lightning events in time. Mehr Sahibzad Khan says that weather detectors are being installed all over the country, a radar with a range of 14,000 km is also being taken from China, the new equipment will timely identify natural disasters due to climate change.
Dozens of people have been killed in the Tharparkar district during the last few years, especially in 2019 when several dozen people and hundreds of cattle were killed in one such lightning strike incident. Earlier, An incident of thunder strike in Kambar-Shahdadkot district during the rainfall claimed three lives.
The deceased in thunderbolt incident in Waggan area of Kambar district, have been identified as Ishaq and Muhammad Khan, two brothers, and their cousin Ameen.
“The deceased were sitting under a tree at an agriculture farm to take meal, when thunderbolt struck them,” rescue sources said.
The bodies have been transferred to home, family members said.
Larkana and adjoining areas being lashed by heavy rainfall since the wee hours of today, according to a weather report. –Agencies
