16 people dead, 26 homes abolished in Attabad, Hunza عطا آباد ہنزہ میں پہاڑ سرکنے کے نتیجے میں 16 افراد جاں بحق 26 گھردریامیں جا گرے۔۔۔ عطا آباد گائوں کی قیمتی زرعی زمین تباہ ہوگئی۔۔

Sarat Hunza: (Ayub Khan 5 Jan 09) The mountain slide in Attabad Hunza has taken a tool of 16 precious lives and 26 homes and half of the cultivating land of the people of Attabad and Sarat Hunza. Throughout Hunza emergency has been imposed and people are advised to shift to the safer places. The death tool and damages to the homes caused due to the sliding and wind caused by mountain sliding.

The mountain slid has blocked the Hunza river completely and it is become threatening to the upper Hunza as the low lands of upper Hunza would may come under water, as well as, in the event of the brust of water from the blocked area the low lands in central and lower Hunza and Nagar may also come under water and would caused severe loss to cultivating land and homes.

40 people are said to be still missing at KKH in front of Attabad, Hunza

Sarat Hunza (Ayub Khan 6 Jan 09): According to the latest reports there are around 40 passengers in a van, car and pick-up said to be buried under the rubbles at Karakuram Highway (KKH) due to the land sliding at Attabad, Hunza. The death tool in Sarat has reached to 16 and still search operation is going on. However, due to the heavy land sliding the rescue and search operation at KKH has not yet been started although 24 hours has passed. Volunteers from Hunza are helping in search and rescue operations to the affected people. The rocks have said to cover Hunza river over almost two kilometers and FOCUS as well as the Ismaili Regional Council have asked the thousands of people of Attabad, Salmanabad and Sarat to leave their homes as the rest of the Attabad is said to fall down with in a few days. If this will continue it will be highly disastrous for the low land villages of Gojal, Upper Hunza as they will submerge under the water that will gather over the time. FOCUS the Aga Khan Humanitarian Assistance Proprgam has arranged shelter and food for the displaced people at Altit and Aliabad. There are no material measures undertaken by the government to address the issue neither any plan is announced for the settlement and support of the displaced people.

source - Gilgit Biltistan Times