At least eight volunteers were killed and several others feared trapped when a landslide hit a water channel damaged by the floods in Danyor Nullah de Gilgit during the repair work, police said Monday.
The volunteers were restoring the channel when a dough of earth collapsed, burying them under debris, police said.
Hospital sources confirmed that all the dead were members of a local voluntary team, while three others were injured.
As the search for more survivors progresses, the authorities have declared the emergence in local hospitals.
A provincial government spokesman said that accelerated glacial fusion, driven by climate change, had increased water flow in several currents.
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The Shishper glacier recently flooded, damaging the farmland and closing of the Karakoram (KKH) road to Hunza. The traffic was being diverted by Nagar Road.
The authorities have warned about new rains and landslides in the region.
A significant section of the KKH in the Morkhun area of Alto Hunza was destroyed by the erosion of the river, separating the land bond between Pakistan and China, said the Gilgit-Baltistan government (GB).
“The erosion of the river remains a key taxpayer to road blockages in the region,” said an expert in the cryiosfera. The express trustee. “Although KKH interruptions are not unusual, the current intensity of the river swelling and the damage scale is significantly higher.”
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GB government spokesman Faizullah Faraq confirmed that the increase in river flow led to the erosion of a KKH section, making it impassable.
Prime Minister Haji Gulbar Khan has directed the immediate restoration of the road.
Previously, the authorities warned of possible floods in local currents and nullahs in Dera Ghazi Khan, northeast and superior Punjab, Islamabad/Rawalpindi, northeastern Baluchistan, Kashmir, Chitral, Swat, Swat, Shangla, Mansehra, Murree, Garyat, Kohistan, Abbottabad, Abbottabad, Abbottabad, Abbottabad, Abbottabad Buner, Swabi, and now, and now, and now, and Mehistan.
There is also a high risk of landslides in the mountainous areas of KP, Murree, Galiyat, Cashmira and GB, potentially interrupting road networks and communications.
