Hot summer fuels dangerous glacier melting in Central Asia
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IT began with a low rumbling noise. Then the rivers of mud poured down the mountainside over the Tajik village of Barssem: the latest victim of shrinking glaciers that are an alarming portent of climate change in Central Asia.
"The gorge was filled by a terrible noise - the roar of stones," said villager Shakarbek Kurbonbekov. "The mud took everything in its path - homes, cars," he told AFP by phone. "Those that could, escaped to higher ground. There was no time to think."
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