Hunza River flooding blocks Karakoram Highway for traffic.
Heavy flooding in the Hunza River wreaked destruction at Gulmit in the Gojal area of Hunza, as the Karakoram Highway has been blocked for vehicular traffic since yesterday.
The RCC bridge in Gulmit has been pressed under the flood debris after flooding in the Hunza River.
Travellers have been stranded across the Pakistan-China Khunjerab border crossing after the highway was blocked.
Two excavators of the FWO have been engaged in the restoration work of the Karakoram Highway.
Local people of Gulmit are extending help to stranded passengers as local volunteers guide them to cross a temporary bridge.
Local volunteers are also carrying ailing and weak passengers on their backs to cross the bridge.
The Gilgit Baltistan government’s spokesman yesterday said that over 50 workers survived the wrath of the Hunza River as flooding wreaked havoc in the Gulmit and Gojal areas.
Government spokesman Faizullah Firaq said that the landslides hit at Shahrah-e-Resham.
Flooding has also hit the Shigar area of Baltistan, a spokesman said. “Floodwater hit the agricultural land and swept away trees in Shigar.”
“Shahrah-e-Resham has been blocked by the landslide at Hunza, stranding passengers in the area,” spokesman Faizullah Firaq said.
Gilgit-Baltistan is facing the worst flooding devastation as the impact of climate change is increasing.
