Flooding in Sutlej has badly affected settlements in the bed of the river in Okara. The inflow and outflow in Sutlej river has been measured at 66,459 cusecs, flood report said.
Several villages on both sides of the riverbed were submerged under floodwater damaging several houses and standing crops stretching over hundreds of acres.
Water level in River Sutlej is rising rapidly and the water level recorded at Ganda Singh Wala was 20 feet on late Wednesday night with 60,340 cusecs of floodwater passing from Ganda Singh Wala Headworks.