{"id":82817,"date":"2025-08-11T10:46:43","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T05:46:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=82817"},"modified":"2025-08-11T10:46:43","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T05:46:43","slug":"gilgit-mudslide-leaves-eight-volunteers-dead-amid-fixing-water-channel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/gilgit-mudslide-leaves-eight-volunteers-dead-amid-fixing-water-channel\/","title":{"rendered":"Gilgit mudslide leaves eight volunteers dead amid fixing water channel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>GILGIT: In a tragic incident, at least eight individual lost their lives due to <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/landslide-buries-car-in-skardu-leaves-five-dead\/\">mudslides<\/a>, according to officials on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The deceased were working on the restoration of the flood-damaged Danyor Nullah in Gilgit, as per the officials.<\/p>\n<p>More deaths are to be feared as the rescue operation is still in progress to find those under the debris.<\/p>\n<p>Several others were injured and rushed to hospitals, where emergency services have been activated.<\/p>\n<p>According to local reports, the volunteers were working to restore the flood-damaged water channel when the mudslide occurred.<\/p>\n<p>As a result, numerous persons were buried beneath tons of soil and rocks.<\/p>\n<p>Police reported four people were rescued from beneath the debris in serious condition, but many more are still buried as rescue personnel and villagers labor diligently to locate them.<\/p>\n<p>Local officials said that the community had banded together to assist with the continuing rescue attempts. A tragic situation is happening in Gilgit.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) issued a Glacial Lake Outburst Flood (GLOF) alert for the glaciated regions of Gilgit-Baltistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.<\/p>\n<p>According to the alert, sudden GLOF events may occur during the current and coming week in view of a significant rise in temperatures and an upcoming weather system in northern Pakistan.<\/p>\n<p>NDMA has advised all concerned federal ministries and departments, respective provincial governments, municipal administrations, and civic agencies to remain on high alert and ensure full preparedness.<\/p>\n<p>Emergency response equipment must be placed at strategic locations for the timely restoration of any obstructed or damaged routes.<\/p>\n<p>NDMA has also emphasized public awareness campaigns in at-risk areas to alert citizens about the dangers of GLOFs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GILGIT: In a tragic incident, at least eight individual lost their lives due to mudslides, according to officials on Monday. The deceased were working on the restoration of the flood-damaged Danyor Nullah in Gilgit, as per the officials. More deaths are to be feared as the rescue operation is still in progress to find those [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":82818,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13446,2],"tags":[30633],"class_list":["post-82817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-pakistan","tag-gilgit-mudslide"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82817"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82819,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82817\/revisions\/82819"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}