Jammu, April 1 -- Chief minister Omar Abullah on Tuesday candidly admitted that at least five glacial lakes in the Himalayas of Kashmir have "very high susceptibility" to glacial lake outburst floods (GLOFs).

GLOF is a high-magnitude catastrophic flood caused by the failure of a dam containing a glacial lake.

He, however, allayed any apprehensions of any immediately instability in the five lakes.

Responding to a question of party MLA Tanvir Sadiq, Omar Abdullah said that a recent scientific study conducted by researchers from the department of geo- informatics, University of Kashmir and published in the Journal of Glaciology, assessed the susceptibility of glacial lakes to potential GLOFs in the Kashmir Himalayas.

"The study analysed ...