Work on mitigating effects of a July 8 flooding that affected a village in the Darvoz district of the Gorno Badakhshan Autonomous Region (GBAO) is under way.
“To-date, water has moved back but the highway connecting Dushanbe and the GBAO administrative center, Khorog, through Kulob is still closed for traffic, but people can use the highway connecting Dushanbe and Khorog through the Sangvor (formerly Tavildara) district and the Khoburabot Pass,” Gulsha Nasillobekov, an official with the GBAO emergency management agency, told Asia-Plus in an interview Tuesday afternoon.
Recall, the disaster occurred Saturday (July 8) afternoon.
A landslide that occurred on the Afghan bank of the Panj River temporarily blocked the river. The river burst the banks, flooding the Khostav village in GBAO’s Darvoz district.
Twenty-two houses were reportedly damaged by the flooding. No injured was reported. The flooding victims were temporarily housed in tents.
Niloufar Aslamshoyeva, a spokeswoman for the GBAO regional administration, says the regional administration has sent food products to the flooding victims.
More than 10 tons of food products from the state food reserve were sent to the flooding victims on July 8. FOCUS International has provided the flooding victims tents and necessitates.
According to the GBAO emergency management agency, more than 800 meters of the Dushanbe-Khorog highway have got under water. The work on restoration of traffic along the highway from Dushanbe to Khorog through Kulob is under way.
