Life remained disrupted due to rain and landslides in Jammu and Kashmir, Himachal and Uttarakhand on Tuesday. During heavy rains in Kotdwar, Uttarakhand, a house collapsed due to debris coming from the mountains, due to which a two-year-old child and an old woman died after being buried under the debris, while the search for a man is going on. A woman was rescued safely.
In Himachal Pradesh, due to heavy rains, a limestone mine in Sirmaur collapsed, burying three workers, while in Lahaul-Spiti, many roads were washed away due to cloudburst at three places.
Due to which the vehicles of devotees and farmers who had set out on Neelkanth Yatra got stuck. The Meteorological Department has issued an orange alert of heavy to very heavy rain in Dehradun and Bageshwar on Wednesday.
Due to sudden rise in the water level of Swarna River due to heavy rains in Dehradun, six students of UPES University, who were on trekking, got stuck in the middle of the river.
The SDRF team reached the spot after covering about six kilometers of difficult terrain and pulled all the students out of the swollen river safely with the help of ropes.
On the other hand, rain was recorded in some upper areas of Jammu and Kashmir including Shopian, Kupwara. Srinagar Meteorological Center has issued orange alert for Jammu division and yellow alert for Kashmir from August 19 to 21. Due to continuous heavy rains in Uttarakhand, roads have been disrupted due to overflowing of many rivers.
On the other hand, Anjali from New Delhi died on the spot while Shidappa from Karnataka got injured after being hit by stones that fell from the hill near Cheerbasa on the Kedarnath walking route.
Dewal-Lohajung Highway remained closed on the second day and Hatkaliadi-Sawar road remained closed on the fourth day also. The water level of Ganga has crossed the warning line in Haridwar and Rishikesh.
Two more bodies were recovered on Tuesday from the tunnel of THDC’s Pipalkoti-Vishnugad hydropower project in Chamoli district of Uttarakhand. Now the death toll has reached 10. Let us tell you that the landslide occurred on the evening of 13th August. 22 workers were trapped in it.
All the missing workers were rescued on Tuesday after a 117-hour long rescue operation. 12 workers were rescued safely and admitted to District Hospital Gopeshwar.
Search for missing constable continues: Jyotirmath. The search is on for BRO Havildar Pankaj in the disaster that occurred on August 10 in Tamak drain. The team is using state-of-the-art radar technology.
A girl studying in a class suffered serious head injury when the plaster of the ceiling of a school fell on Sangrah in Sirmaur district of Himachal. The teacher immediately took him to a local hospital where he received 11 stitches on his head.
Many old school buildings in the district have become dilapidated during the rainy season. Parents have raised questions on the safety of children. Higher officials have been informed about the incident.