Authorities have blown up an embankment next to the monsoon-engorged Qadirabad dam, AFP reports.

Authorities carried out a controlled explosion of an embankment at Qadirabad dam on the Chenab River as the water levels rose.

“To save the structure, we have breached the right marginal embankment so that the flow of the water reduces,” said Mazhar Hussain, the spokesperson for Punjab PDMA.