A stretch of the Karakoram Highway was swept away by a flood in Khyber Pakhtunkhwas Upper Kohistan district on Monday evening . Hundreds of passengers including families and tourists were left stranded on the road . The highways restoration would take days as no trace of the thoroughfare was left near Lachi nullah in Upper Kohistans Harban tehsil .
A mosque a police station a hotel and multiple houses were damaged in the flood . Over a million tourists travel on it to visit the scenic places of GB in the summer season . The highway is one of the international routes in Pakistan that connects the country with China at Khunjerab and is closed for light traffic at midnight but got blocked again in the evening today .
It is blocked at nine different locations in the limits of Diamer on Sunday and was opened for light . The KarakOram Highway has been closed for a period of about four hours. It was closed for two hours. The KararakorAm Highway is one. It has been blocked at least three times a day since 2008.
It is a popular route to China at the border with Pakistan. It connects the region with China. It’s closed for traffic. It also has been opened for a distance of about two hours a day for two days. It will be closed again for a month. It remains closed for three hours a week.
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