ISLAMABAD: Three women tourists died on Sunday after part of a glacier fell on them while they were posing for a photograph on their way to Saiful Muluk Lake, near the Naran city of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
The tourists were reportedly taking pictures under the glacier when it fell on them, which resulted in their deaths. All the three victims belonged to Karachi, a private news channel reported.
Rescue personnel reached the site of incident and transferred the bodies of the ill-fated tourists to a nearby hospital after digging them out from under the fallen glacier.
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Dawn Newspaper had reported earlier this month that the large glaciers which were once the beauty and source of pleasant weather even in hot summer in Kaghan valley were melting away fast, owing to rapid urbanisation and global warming.
Kaghan valley lying along the Mansehra-Naran-Jalkhad road has stunning attractions like Saiful Muluk Lake, which are visited by tourists in large numbers broth from within the country and outside.
However, a big glacier at the entrance of Naran Bazaar is rapidly losing ground as people use the snow in the summers to cool off water.
Kaghan valley has lost many glaciers from Kaghan to Naran and one can see the black sites on the land, where the glaciers once existed.
The big glacier situated at Naran-Saiful Muluk road is a big attraction for tourists and those who disembark from their jeeps in front of it while visiting Saiful Muluk Lake can’t withstand the freezing winds emanating from the snow mass.
