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Disaster in paradise

Posted by: sarah-indra, 10. January 2012 - 11:43
Source: http://www.chinadialogue.net
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Two years ago a massive landslide devastated Pakistan’s Hunza Valley. People in the region remain stranded even now and not enough has been done to prevent future calamities, writes Noreen Haider.

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Two years ago this week, as 2010 was getting under way, a huge landslide changed the landscape of the remote valley of Hunza in the Karakorum mountain range of northern Pakistan. The landslide fell across the HunzaRiver at a place called Attabad, forming a dam approximately 1,200 metres long, 350 metres wide and 125 metres deep, destroying part of the Karakorum Highway – a vital road link between Pakistan and China – and killing 19 people.

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