{"id":16376,"date":"2025-08-11T09:05:18","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T09:05:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=16376"},"modified":"2025-08-11T09:05:18","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T09:05:18","slug":"eight-killed-as-landslide-hits-damaged-water-channel-in-gilgit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=16376","title":{"rendered":"Eight killed as landslide hits damaged water channel in Gilgit"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>At least eight volunteers were killed and several others feared trapped when a landslide hit a flood-damaged water channel in Gilgit&#8217;s Danyor Nullah during repair work, police said on Monday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The volunteers were restoring the channel when a mass of earth collapsed, burying them under debris, said police.<\/p>\n<p>Hospital sources confirmed all the dead were members of a local volunteer team, while three others were injured.<\/p>\n<p>As the search goes on for more survivors, the authorities have declared emergcy at local hospitals.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A provincial government spokesperson said accelerated glacial melt, driven by climate change, had increased water flow in several streams.<\/p>\n<p>Read: Climate-driven erosion cuts Karakoram Highway in Upper Hunza<\/p>\n<p>The Shishper glacier recently flooded, damaging farmland and closing part of the Karakoram Highway (KKH) towards Hunza. Traffic was being diverted via Nagar Road.<\/p>\n<p>Officials have warned of further rains and landslides in the region.<\/p>\n<p>A significant stretch of the KKH in Upper Hunza\u2019s Morkhun area was destroyed by river erosion, severing the overland link between Pakistan and China, the Gilgit-Baltistan (G-B) government said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;River erosion remains a key contributor to highway blockages in the region,&#8221; a cryosphere expert told The Express Tribune. &#8220;Although disruptions on the KKH are not unusual, the current intensity of river swelling and the scale of damage are significantly higher.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Read more: Over 110 dead since late June as monsoon rains wreak havoc in Pakistan<\/p>\n<p>G-B government spokesperson Faizullah Faraq confirmed that the increased river flow led to the erosion of a section of the KKH, rendering it impassable.<\/p>\n<p>Chief Minister Haji Gulbar Khan has directed the immediate restoration of the highway.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, authorities warned of possible flooding in local streams and nullahs in Dera Ghazi Khan, northeastern and upper Punjab, Islamabad\/Rawalpindi, northeastern Balochistan, Kashmir, Chitral, Swat, Shangla, Mansehra, Murree, Galiyat, Kohistan, Abbottabad, Buner, Swabi, Nowshera, and Mardan.<\/p>\n<p>There is also a high risk of landslides in K-P\u2019s hilly areas, Murree, Galiyat, Kashmir and G-B, potentially disrupting road networks and communications.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least eight volunteers were killed and several others feared trapped when a landslide hit a flood-damaged water channel in Gilgit&#8217;s Danyor Nullah during repair work, police said on Monday.\u00a0 The volunteers were restoring the channel when a mass of earth collapsed, burying them under debris, said police. Hospital sources confirmed all the dead were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16376\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}