Landslides block key road links in Azad Kashmir
Pakistan Times Kashmir Desk

MUZAFFARABAD (AJK): Key road links in Azad Kashmir were blocked by landslides Wednesday prompted by the recent spate of monsoon incessant rains, obstructing movement of the people.

Heavy downpour which began Monday and caused landslides, cuting off the scenic Neelum valley’s only link with Muzaffarabad, the capital of Azad Kashmir, report Inp.

Army and civil engineers teams were busy clearing the landslides but rain was hampering the efforts, he said. Some 10,000 survivors had been shifted to safer locations away from landslide-prone areas.

And, another report says that landsildes triggered by monsoon rain have blocked vital road links in Azad Kashmir, hampering movement of thousands of people.

Torrential rains which started on Monday and subsequent landslides cut off the scenic Neelum valley’s only link with Muzaffarabad, adminstration official Fayyaz Ali Abbasi said.

Army and civil engineers teams were busy clearing the landslides but rain was hampering the efforts, he said.

Twelve people who survived last year’s major earthquake in the area were killed in a landslide at a camp on Monday near Muzaffarabad.

Abbasi said some 10,000 survivors had been shifted to safer locations away from landslide-prone areas.

A 7.6-magnitude quake on October 8 claimed more than 73,000 lives, seriously injured nearly 70,000 people and left 3.3 million homeless in Pakistan. More than 1,000 also died in Indian Kashmir.●