Days of torrential downpours have washed away vehicles, demolished buildings and destroyed bridges in the Himalayas. Read more at straitstimes.com.
Days of torrential downpours have washed away vehicles, demolished buildings and destroyed bridges in the Himalayas.
“As many personnel as possible are being deployed in relief and rescue work,” state chief minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu said in a statement late Monday.Mr Sukhu said earlier that up to 20 others were feared trapped under rubble after landslides, and appealed to residents to stay indoors and avoid going near rivers.
Mr Sukhu said the state would scale down Tuesday’s annual celebrations of Independence Day, which marks the end of the British colonial era, to concentrate on rescue efforts. Rescue teams there raced to remove debris after people were feared buried when heavy rainfall triggered landslides.
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