Cyclone "Phet" leaves 15 dead, thousands homeless in Pakistan

The terrible cyclone "Phet" converted to plain Strong wind force as it slipped into India Rajasthan coastal desert area on Monday after taking a toll on more than 15 lives and injured dozens and thousands were on the streets in the coastal belt in southern Pakistan .

"The cyclone is over," says Director of Meteorological Department Qamaruz Zaman Chaudhry. "It is reduced to a wind pressure."

"Now the fishermen sailing in the ocean to catch fish," said Chaudhry, declare the coastal waters safe for navigation, while eliminating the possibility of further rain in the southern Sindh province. But he said the eastern Punjab province would get rain the next 24 hours.

Heavy rain and wind lashed Karachi and other coastal cities Sunday, killing at least 15 people, most of them electrocuted, and injured several others, when cyclone swirling along its coast.

Life is paralyzed in Karachi, Pakistan's largest city, 15 million inhabitants, and in Hyderabad, the second largest city in Sindh province, and in smaller cities like Thatta and Keti Bandar along the coast of Pakistan in Sindh and Balochistan southwestern province.

Coastal Stock Route in Baluchistan have been washed away, freezing of moving traffic while the network in Sindh has also been eroded by heavy rains that unleashed as "Phet" brim brushed Pakistan at the weekend.

In a country experiencing break the power crisis, life in the cities turned bad as most of the areas are without light for the last 20 to 36 hours, according to local media. While the 2-3 feet in standing water in the streets presenting a river scene that the delicate drainage system was seriously damaged. Medical experts fear that it would generate epidemics.

Results of both sank in the ocean's natural coastal harbor newly built Gwadar in Balochistan.An early warning moored majority of fishing boats in both provinces, which struck the livelihood of hundreds of families.

Over 100,000 villagers have been rescued to safety in relief camps in the two provinces, while a battalion of Pakistani soldiers carry out rescue operation in Balochistan, where intense rainfall of 300 millimeters washed away hundreds of homes. Some areas in Karachi received rainfall of up to 128 mm, while the rest of Sindh experienced from 1940 to 1986 mm rainfall, according to Pakistani media.

Three battalions of the military were called Sunday, which is engaged in rescue in the worst affected coastal areas of Sindh has declared to the red zone from Thatta to Umerkot of Sindh province government.

A Pakistani military C-130 aircraft and two helicopters involved in rescue and relief operations in Balochistan, "said a spokesman for the Army Inter-Services Public Relations on Monday.

The fatal spinning "Phet" generated in the Indian Ocean a week ago and queue to a category four cyclone, but reduced to Category 2 before hitting Oman to take 16 lives on Saturday. It further reduced to a category that narrow Baluchistan. Further reduction to a tropical storm status it brushed the port city of Karachi before met in Sindh's coastal areas on Sunday.

In 1992 a cyclone killed 450 people and displaced 200,000 people in Thatta, about 100 km east of Karachi. In 1999, around 700 people missing and hundreds of coastal villages were flooded east of Karachi, when a storm hit Pakistan. A tropical storm floods destroyed hundreds of thousands of homes in Baluchistan in June 2007.