Gilgit-Baltistan Floods Rescue Efforts Ongoing

Gilgit-Baltistan Floods Rescue Efforts Ongoing

Government spokesman Faizullah Firaq has said that the sequence of flooding and landslides is happening again and again in the region.

“Two people have been untraced and five injured,” the GB spokesman said.

He said the government is using all its resources in the rescue and relief operations.

“An effective rescue operation in the mountainous region depends on weather,” he said.

He said flooding has wreaked havoc in the region as hundreds of houses have collapsed and thousands of kanals of agricultural land have been destroyed in the calamity.

“Karakoram and Babusar highways have been restored for traffic,” the spokesman said.

“Gilgit-Shandur road has been blocked at a point and restoration work of the road has been underway,” the spokesman added.