Call for disaster prevention measures against threats posed by artificial lake

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HUNZA, Aliabad, April 21: The civil society members have called upon government to ensure safety of people on both sides of fifteen kilometers long artificial lake which has already submerged a large portion of Ayeenabad and Nazimabad settlements. A special meeting was held here in a local hotel to review relief operations to the affectees of the calamity hit areas. Speakers expressed their strong concerns about the possible destruction in case of outburst of lake saying besides lives of more than forty thousand people have endangered, there are chances of property loss in downstream areas in particular and settlements closed to river shores in general. According to FOCUS reports, it has installed precautionary alarm systems in the settlements along the river passage in down areas; and currently about 19 cusec water is releasing from the seepage points of the lake.