January 17, 2020

Grand Solar minimum (2018-32) avalanche kills 5 Pakistani soldiers

Names of those killed -

  • Lance Naik Banaras Iqbal, 
  • Lance Naik Abdul Razzaq, 
  • SPR Mohammad Rafiq, 
  • SPR Shahzad Akram and 
  • SPR Ammar Ali



An avalanche destroyed a house in the Thali area of Qamri town, killing four-year-old Rehmatullah and 19-year-old Zeenat, the local police said. Two other members of their family, Mohammad Sultan and Amir Hayat, were injured in the incident, the officials added.

However, according to the complaints received from locals, the injured couldn’t be shifted to hospitals as some roads had been blocked for the past several days.

According a press release issued by the authorities on Wednesday, Gilgit-Baltistan disaster management authority and district administrations have started clearing roads and rehabilitating telecommunication, electricity and other basic infrastructures across the region.

The Gilgit-Rawalpindi section of the Karakorum Highway has been fully restored, while the Frontier Works Organization (FWO) cleared road at four points by removing debris in Patton, Matta Banda of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Tatta Pani in Diamer.


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