BIG FLOOD FEARED
Himalayan Ice Dam BURSTING REPORTED Calcutta. August 28. The famous Shyok ice dam in the Karakoram Range of the Himalayas is reported to have burst, and it is stated that a tremendous volume of water, coming down the Indus, threatens to inundate the Punjab and Kashmir. This dam holds back an artificial lake, formed 17,000 feet up in the Karakoram Range. On a previous occasion this dam burst and caused a flood of water fifty feet high at Attock Bridge, 600 miles from the dam.
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Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 287, 30 August 1933, Page 9
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88BIG FLOOD FEARED Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 287, 30 August 1933, Page 9
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