Pakistanis fear overflowing lake will wash them away
Already villages and hamlets have been washed away
We drive as far as the road will take us, and then we stop because the debris from the landslide that occurred in January still blocks the road. To the right, the once steep ridges on which Attabad village was perched now present a vast descent of loose rocks and rubble that fills up the gorge of the Hunza river, creating a huge embankment. For nearly five months, this embankment has blocked the river's flow, creating a lake upstream and a de