Village turns into synthetic lake after glacier melts in Gilgit-Baltistan
GHIZER: An synthetic lake was combined in a Ishkoman hollow of Ghizer district of Gilgit-Baltistan after a tiny glacier melted into Barsuwat Nullah, it emerged on Thursday.
The Barsuwat area lies during a stretch of 60km from Gahkuch, a district domicile of Ghizer district. The Ishkoman hollow is situated nearby a Pakistan-Afghanistan limit area.
A encampment in a area was incited into a lake after a upsurge of a Immit River was blocked due to a melted glacier.
Dozens of houses and families were affected. Hundreds of kanals of cultivated land were submerged and crops damaged.
Reports of locals trapped in opposite areas were also received.
As landslides in a area continue, a land routes joining to top tools of Immit have been blocked.
Residents of a area have complained that authorities have not extended any support.
This year a stream heatwave has also contributed to a melting of a glacier. The sleet descending in Feb to Mar can't modify into glaciers and when feverishness rises in summer, a sleet starts melting, ensuing in floods and avalanches.
On Jan 4, 2010, during slightest 20 people died in a landslide that blocked a Hunza River, formulating a Attabad lake that gradually stretched 23 kilometres upstream, submerging 4 villages – Ainabad, Shishkat, Gulmit and Gulkin. The landslide had also blocked a Karakoram Highway (KKH), a critical trade couple to China, slicing off 26,000 people in Upper Hunza Valley, also famous as Gojal Valley.