INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Melted glacier floods village creating artificial lake in Gilgit-Baltistan The village of Barsuwat Nullah
was turned into an artificial lake in Gilgit-Baltistan after a small glacier melted in the Ishkoman Valley on Thursday.The village situated
the ImmitRiver due to a melted glacier.The creation of the lake came with several difficulties for locals in the village of Barsuwat with
demolition of houses, submergences of numerous kanals of cultivated land and several crops left impaired
Reports have also emerged of villages being trapped in numerous locations with the continuation of landslides resulting in the upper parts
of the region facing obstructions as well.Authorities in the area have had complaints filed against them by inhabitants for providing no
aid.Previously in January of 2010, an approximate of 20 people had lost their lives after a landslide blocked the Hunza River, concluding to
the creation of the Attabad Lake which ended up intensifying 23 kilometers further taking into its gasp four villages of Ainabad, Shishkat,
Due to the avalanche a fundamental trade link to China in the shape of Karakoram Highway (KKH) was also barricaded, desisting 26,000
inhabitants of the Gojal Valley.
