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Kashmir avalanches and landslides leave 62 people dead

Wednesday, 15th January 2020

At least 62 people have been killed, and more are missing after torrential slides and avalanches hit Pakistan-directed Kashmir in the course of recent days.

The area's Neelum Valley was especially hard hit, with numerous individuals left cut off from help.

While the region is inclined to climate debacles, the present cost is one of the deadliest in late history.

The brutal climate has likewise murdered handfuls in different pieces of Pakistan, and India and Afghanistan.

Pakistani Kashmir was the most exceedingly awful hit region, with 62 people executed and a few missing, Pakistan's National Disaster Management Authority said.

In many spots, the climate enhanced Tuesday, however huge numbers of the most noticeably awful influenced regions to stay cut off.

In Pakistan's Balochistan region, authorities put the loss of life at 20, including 12 ladies and seven kids.

Eight individuals have likewise passed on in Indian-controlled Jammu and Kashmir, as per neighbourhood media.

In Afghanistan, the official cost remains at 24 dead and 40 injured in recent weeks, with a large portion of the losses happening in last days.

The most noticeably awful influenced territories in the nation incorporate Helmand, Kandahar, Herat and Kabul. Salvage endeavours are in progress.

Pakistani specialists have told that across Neelum Valley, in any event, 59 people have been slaughtered and more than 40 harmed by the two torrential slides and avalanches.

In excess of 100 houses have been crushed or harmed.

Police say most courses to get to the valley are blocked, so salvage groups can't get in.

Neelum Valley is a thin bow moulded valley that runs some 130km (81 miles) from start to finish, encompassed on the two sides by tall mountains.

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