B!G DAM BURSTS
(Press. Assn.-
BUILDINGS WRECKED AND VILLAGES OF INDUS EVACUATED.
-By Telegraph — Copyright).
CALCUTTA, Thursday. The great Shyok dam, which held back a huge artificial lake, nine miles long and half a mile wide, in the Karakoram range, burst, and the river Indus is in flood to a depth of over fifty feet, carrying with it wrecked buildings and uprooted trees. Fearing a repetition of the damage done when the dam burst in 1929, the Punjab and Kashmir Governments ordered the evacuation of the low-lying villages in the Indus Valley.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 275, 15 July 1932, Page 5
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