GILGIT, March 8: Unknown persons in Thack-Niyat valley of Diamer district destroyed 15 kilometres of a jeepable road on Saturday and Sunday night using dynamite in some sections and pushing boulders on to the road, police sources said on Monday.

They said that the road, 130kms south of Gilgit, linked the Karakoram Highway (KKH) and the tourist hill resort of Babusar valley. Other sources said that this was the result of a decades-old tribal feud between different tribes of the valley.

Diamer police said that on the nights of Saturday and Sunday, five undertrial prisoners escaped from the Chilas district jail by cutting a hole in the roof of their barracks (cell).