Six damaged gates of Sukkur Barrage being replaced.

SUKKUR -- The irrigation department has begun work for the replacement of six damaged gates of Sukkur Barrage after closing the bridge for general traffic by deploying police and Rangers personnel on both sides of the barrage.

According to Sukkur Barrage's control room incharge Abdul Aziz Soomro, the road of Sukkur Barrage has been closed for general traffic from Dec 24 to Dec 31.

He told that as per study report of the World Bank, cracks were unearthed in six gates of the barrage and in the light of such reports, six gates, from Gate No. 33 to Gate No. 39, were being replaced. The work on gates had been started through heavy crane and other heavy machinery, he added.

All 66 gates of the Sukkur Barrage were...