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Kashmir avalanche: Horrific landslide leaves at least 85 dead and 10 missing
Express   14 January 2020   Pakistan   Kashmir  
Dozens of homes have been destroyed this morning (Image: AFP)
<p>Dozens of homes have been destroyed this morning after a series of avalanches caused landslides, killing at least 85. It was reported this morning that the death toll was at 55. It has since risen by 30 but more people are feared to have been killed.<br ...
Pakistan earthquake leaves 19 dead and 300 injured in Kashmir region
The Guardian   25 September 2019   Pakistan   Kashmir  
Photograph: Aamir Qureshi/AFP/Getty Images
<p>At least 19 people have been killed and 300 injured after a shallow earthquake struck north-eastern Pakistan, tearing car-sized cracks into roads and heavily damaging infrastructure.<br />The quake sent people in Lahore and Islamabad running into the streets. ...
Thousands stranded by floods and landslides in north-west Pakistan
The Guardian   04 April 2016   Pakistan   Peshawar  
People cross a flooded street following heavy rain in Peshawar. Photograph: A Majeed/AFP/Getty Images
<p>Rescuers are attempting to reach thousands of people stranded by floods and landslides in Pakistan&rsquo;s north-west and parts of Kashmir after the death toll rose to 55.</p>
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A terrifying video of two coaches trapped by “shooting rocks” in Pakistan
AGU Blogosphere   28 March 2016   Pakistan   Karakorum Highway  
Shooting rocks on the Karakorum Highway, via a Youtube video - AGU.Blogosphere
<p>Youtube has an amazing and terrifying video of two coaches trapped by “shooting rocks” – very high velocity rockfalls – on the Karakorum Highway in Pakistan. These boulders, some of which are very large, have managed to get into the high velocity, bouncing ...