
Pakistan's Hassanabad bridge collapses as heatwave melts glacier causing floods | Oneindia News
On Saturday, the historic Hassanabad Bridge in Pakistan’s Gilgit-Baltistan region was destroyed due to flood water from a glacial..
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Gilgit-Baltistan, formerly known as the Northern Areas, is a region administered by Pakistan as an autonomous territory, and constituting the northern portion of the larger Kashmir region which has been the subject of a dispute between India and Pakistan since 1947, and between India and China from somewhat later. It borders Azad Kashmir to the south, the province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa to the west, the Wakhan Corridor of Afghanistan to the north, the Xinjiang region of China, to the east and northeast, and the Indian-administered union territories Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh to the southeast.
On Saturday, the historic Hassanabad Bridge in Pakistan’s Gilgit-Baltistan region was destroyed due to flood water from a glacial..