Al-Azraq inspects shelters and rain-affected neighborhoods
The acting governor of Kassala, Major General Maash Al-Sadiq Muhammad Al-Azraq, accompanied by the Secretary General of the Government, the Commissioner for Humanitarian Aid, the Executive Director of Kassala Locality and the Director of the Civil Defense Department, made an inspection tour of the shelters and neighborhoods that were damaged by the rain that fell this morning, with about 120 mm. The inspection tour included the shelter center for displaced people in the Industrial School, which was completely flooded with water, forcing families to take to the streets. During the tour, the governor and the accompanying delegation also stopped at the Olympic Stadium, which was also flooded with rainwater, and the water collection operations carried out by the Civil Defense, in addition to being at the site of the water fracture. flowing from the southern highlands of the state, and the water was retreating towards the Martyrs neighborhood and flooding the neighborhood. The governor and the accompanying delegation listened to a comprehensive briefing by the Director of Civil Defense on the efforts made and underway to drain the water from the accommodation center of the industrial school and solve the problems in other places, noting that the quantities of water that fell were significant. in addition to the needs needed to overcome the situation. For his part, the governor explained that most of the accommodation centers and neighborhoods in the city of Kassala were severely damaged and the volume of water was greater than the capacity of the city's sewers, indicating that the tour also aimed to seek alternative sites to transfer the displaced from the damaged accommodation centers to safer areas, especially the accommodation center at the industrial school, indicating at the same time that the area west of Kassala airport was chosen as an alternative to the center and that the center would be prepared within 72 hours.
