Once a small cluster of houses stood along a gentle stream in Pakistani Kashmir. Now only jagged rocks and a few damaged homes remain after ...
LASWA VALLEY: Once, a small cluster of houses stood along a gentle stream in Pakistani Kashmir.
On Sunday evening, the normally quiet stream running through the valley morphed into a raging current - uprooting everything in its path.Seven others were injured, while 150 houses and businesses were destroyed and about 50 buildings damaged in the seven hamlets spread across Laswa."I was holding the hand of my mother trying to save her, but unfortunately I lost her hand and she was swept away by the floodwater," says Amin Butt, who was visiting his family in Kashmir.
Located just a few kilometres north of the Line of Control - the heavily militarised de-facto border dividing the disputed Himalayan territory - Laswa has been frequently shelled during bouts of fighting between Pakistan and India.On Sunday, the tragedy brought by the floods reminded residents of the horrors of war from the past."I was unable to see their faces again because their bodies were not found," he sighs.
Several residents interviewed by AFP criticised the slow response by officials, saying supplies arrived slowly by the single road that enters the valley rather than being flown in.
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