Rawba village in Wadi Hajar launches a distress call after the "June catastrophe"
Rawba village in Wadi Hajar launches a distress call after the "June catastrophe"
Rawba village in Wadi Hajar launches a distress call after the "June catastrophe"
Rawba village in Wadi Hajar launches a distress call after the "June catastrophe"
Rawba village in Wadi Hajar launches a distress call after the "June catastrophe"
English - Sunday 07 June 2020 الساعة 03:33 pm
Mukalla, Newsyemen, Private:
The university professor, Dr. Fayez Muhammad Al-Sumaihi, sent a letter of appeal and distress from the village of Rawba, affiliated to the Hajar Province, west of Al-Mukalla, to Eng. Amin Saeed Baraziq, head of the committee in charge of investigating the rain and floods damage in the districts of Hajar and Broome Meafa, and all members of the committee appointed by the governor of Hadhramaut, Major General " Faraj Salmin Al-Bahsani, commander of the Second Military Region.
Al-Sumaihi said: "The village of Rawba lives for the sixth consecutive day in complete isolation from the world, after destroying all roads linking it to the surrounding areas, as the village witnessed floods, starting on Tuesday, 2 June, for three consecutive days until the date of 4 June, It caused extensive damage to farms and homes, as nine buildings were completely destroyed. "
He added: "The whole world watched through the local and international channels as the houses were falling apart and the palm trees were washed away, as floods washed away a number of entire farms, and buried about 30 agricultural wells, many of them with their pumps and a number of agricultural lands, as well as hundreds of palm trees and hundreds of lemon trees, mangoes and bananas were washed away.
Some livestock and apiaries, also the existing water project has gone out of readiness and is the project feeding the entire region. "
Dr. Al-Sumaihi continued: The floods severely damaged the region's cemetery and one of the mosques in the region. The internal roads and the external roads leading to the area were blocked from all sides. The village became completely isolated from the world, the patients could not be transferred to hospitals for treatment and the main foodstuffs were running out.
Al-Sumaihi said: "From here we launch a distress call for the commission in charge of the damage investigation and the local authority and civil society organizations for rapid intervention."
Dr. Fayez Al-Sumaihi concluded his message by saying: "This is a preliminary report and some damages are still being revealed to us, and we need to quickly open the road with sending a committee to investigate all the damages to see first-hand the size of the damage inflicted on the area, and God is the helper."
