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MIRPURKHAS July 18. Intermittent rainfall continued in the city and its outskirts areas here on Saturday as result low lying areas were inundated under the rainy water while the rainy water was also standed at the roads and streets of the city. Report said that rainfall started with heavy lighting and voices on late Friday night that remained yet continue intermittently. As the first drop fell, power supply was suspended to the city and other areas of the district, after which cities and villages plunged into darkness. Following rainfall temperature was decreased and people expressed their happiness as people including youth and children came out of their houses to enjoy the rainfall. Electricity wires at different places in the city and its outskirts areas were broken during the rainfall as result power supply of various areas might not be restored till filing of the news. Senatory staffs of the TMA Mirpurkhas were missing from their duties as manycitizen made complaints to TMA Mirpurkhas regarding unsanitary condition of their areas. Vice president Mirpurkhas Sindh abadgar board chapter Haji Abdul Ghafoor Maher , talking to this scribe said that there was acute need of rainfall in this region including Mirpurkhas, Umerkot, Sanghar and Tharparkar as these districts were in tail of the Nara canal and acute shortage of irrigation water was persisting here since three months . He further said that standed cotton and chili crops particularly were destroying due to absence of irrigation water but now as the rainfall started and growers are happy to this rainfall that is at the time of its requirement. Hide and seek of power was continued in the Mirpurkhas and other towns and cities of the district. However no rain related incident was reported till filing of this news