GILGIT: The Karakoram Freeway (KKH), which had been blocked at a number of places between GB’s Diamer and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Kohistan resulting from landslides amid rain and snowfall, reopened for site visitors on Wednesday.
The freeway was blocked on Tuesday night, and Diamer Deputy Commissioner Ataur Rehman Kakar instructed Daybreak that it reopened for site visitors on Wednesday at round 4pm.
He stated rain, nonetheless, was nonetheless pouring, and there have been possibilities of “rockfalls and landslides”.
The Pakistan Meteorological Division (PMD) had earlier issued an alert for an elevated danger of glacial lake outburst flood, snow avalanches, and landslides in GB and higher KP until March 12.
Because of the blockages, hundreds of passengers, together with sufferers, elders, and kids touring in direction of GB or to different elements of the nation, remained stranded at a number of places on Tuesday night time.
In accordance with Diamer police, landslides had occurred at a number of places in Diamer and Kohistan districts on Tuesday. The landslides blocked the KKH at a number of places from Higher Kohistan’s Barseen to the Pattan space in Decrease Kohistan.
An announcement issued by Diamer DC Rehman stated the KKH had been closed resulting from landslides at a number of locations in Higher and Decrease Kohistan.
In accordance with police, most elements of GB obtained rainfall whereas higher areas obtained recent snowfall on Tuesday and Wednesday, creating difficulties for native residents.
Police stated intermittent rain precipitated landslides in distant areas that disconnected folks’s entry to different areas.
Lightning strike kills 3 in Shangla
Separately, three members of a family, a couple and their son, were killed when lightning struck their house in the Lilownai Achar area of KP’s Shangla district in the early hours of Wednesday.
Rescue 1122 spokesperson Rasool Khan Sharif told Dawn that the incident occurred in a remote village a few miles from the district headquarters, Alpuri, during a spell of severe weather.
The deceased were identified as a husband and wife, as well as one of their sons. Three other children in the house survived the strike unharmed.
The incident took place as heavy rains continued to lash the northern parts of KP for a second consecutive day.
Additional input from Umar Bacha
