GILGIT, 18 July 2010 (IRIN) – Receding water levels on the lake formed in the Hunza River by a landslide in January this year have raised hopes among the 20,000 or so people displaced by the disaster that they may soon be able to return to their villages.
Activists with Focus Humanitarian Assistance (FOCUS), an international group of agencies affiliated with the Aga Khan Development Network, said that water in the lake and in flooded upstream villages was receding by a few inches a day. They said it was too early to predict when internally displaced persons (IDPs) could return.
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