Thousands stranded in Gilgit Baltistan resulting from rain-triggered landslides

Thousands of individuals together with overseas vacationers remained stranded at a number of places in #Pakistan-occupied-Kashmir’s (PoK) #Gilgit-Baltistan area resulting from roadblocks brought on by rain-triggered landslides, in response to a media report.

Mobile and web companies throughout the area have been additionally disrupted after fibre optic cables have been broken in a number of areas, the Dawn newspaper reported.

Regional authorities spokesperson Faizullah Faraq stated that the strategic #Karakoram Highway (KKH) was blocked within the Kohistan district of #Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

Thousands of passengers, together with vacationers, travelling to and from the area are stranded on each side of the freeway.

Mr. Faraq stated that whereas KKH has been reopened for site visitors inside Gilgit Baltistan, restoration work is underway in Kohistan.

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The #Babusar Pass Road can also be blocked at a number of places. Torrential rains had triggered flash floods and landslides in a 7-8 km radius round Babusar Top within the Naran valley.

Mr. Faraq assured that each one vacationers stranded on the Babusar route have been safely evacuated and search operations for lacking people are underway.

The cellular and web communication programs within the area have been severely broken, leaving nearly all of residents with out service for as much as six hours on Wednesday. The area’s communication system depends on an optical fibre cable connecting Gilgit Baltistan with Rawalpindi.

According to the Special Communications Organisation (SCO), latest flash floods in Babusar Valley triggered important harm to the principle optical fibre cable. Emergency different satellite tv for pc preparations have been made, however shoppers confronted gradual cellular and web connectivity.

Mr. Faraq stated that work has begun to revive the communication system.

River erosion additionally triggered the collapse of the Hotu suspension bridge in Shigar, chopping off the one entry to the K2 base camp. Numerous overseas expedition members and trekkers have been stranded, whereas eight villages have been additionally reduce off.

Stranded vacationers are anticipated to obtain airlifts freed from cost on Thursday in an operation overseen by Gilgit’s extra deputy commissioner.

Gilgit Baltistan Chief Minister Haji Gulbar Khan has stated that the operations will proceed till all stranded folks in Babusar are rescued.

He additionally declared the flood-affected areas of Thaki, Niyat, Khunra and Thor in Diamer as catastrophe zones, and introduced that the households of those that died within the floods at Babusar will obtain compensation underneath the federal government coverage.

Mr. Khan ordered pressing measures to revive ingesting water, electrical energy, irrigation channels and highway communications within the flood-affected areas of Thor.