via http://www.himalmag.com, by Danial Shah – The new realities of life for villagers in Hunza Valley who lost their homes and lands to a natural lake following a 2010 landslide.
On 4 January 2010, a massive landslide near Attabad village in northern Pakistan blocked the flow of the Hunza River. As a lake formed behind the natural dam, it flooded five villages, including over 200 houses, and displaced more than 6000 people. It also submerged a 19 km stretch of the Karakoram Highway, cutting off road access to the surrounding area. Attabad had been evacuated beforehand, following forecasts of a massive landside by Focus Humanitarian Assistance Pakistan, an international emergency relief group that had been monitoring cracks in the nearby mountain for ten years; the village itself largely disappeared.
More After the flood.
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