Quake victims face spring floods disaster

Conditions could quickly deteriorate even further for millions of earthquake victims in northern Pakistan when the spring thaw in the icy mountains may unleash a torrent of landslides and floods, the United Nations says.

A two-month UN survey of the quake-wracked Kashmir region shows it will take up to five years to restore roads to remote areas, and that massive landslides - triggered by snow melt – will cut off more villages already struggling to survive.