With the recovery of three more bodies, the death toll in the cloudburst and flash flood-related incidents in Himachal Pradesh’s Mandi has mounted to 14 while search is underway for 31 others missing, officials said on Thursday.
While seven bodies were recovered from Gohar, five were from Thunag and one in Karsog subdivisions of Mandi district.
Eleven cloudbursts, three flash floods and a landslide were witnessed in different parts of Mandi district on Tuesday. Over 150 houses, 104 cattle sheds, 31 vehicles, 14 bridges and several roads were damaged in the calamities. A total of 162 cattle perished in the calamities, while 370 people, including 316 in Mandi, were rescued and five relief camps have been set up, the state emergency operation centre (SEOC), said.
The Manali-Keylong road was blocked following floods in a drain near Solang Nallah and the traffic has been diverted through Rohtang Pass. Men and machinery has been deployed by the Border Roads Organisation (BRO), officials said.
A total of 261 roads, including 186 in Mandi district, are closed for traffic in the state while 599 transformers and 797 water supply schemes have been disrupted due to heavy rains in the past few days, the SEOC added.
Both Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu and LoP Jai Ram Thakur visited the affected areas on Wednesday. Sukhu assured locals that if any government land is available nearby, it will be allotted to those who lost their homes. “In case the land falls under forests, the matter will be taken up with the Union government,” the CM said.
Thakur said the number of missing people could rise. Rations should be air-dropped in areas where roads have been damaged, he said.
One killed at MP’s Bageshwar Dham
One person was killed and four others were injured after a tent collapsed due to heavy rain at Bageshwar Dham premises in Madhya Pradesh’s Chhatarpur district on Thursday, police said. The incident occurred around 7.30 am when devotees took shelter under the tent to escape the rain in Garha village.
Punjab: Three dead in roof collapse
A migrant worker from Bihar and his two daughters were killed after the ceiling of a room in their house collapsed on Thursday in Ahiyapur in Tanda police station area. Inspector Gurwinderjit Singh said Shankar, 40, lived with his wife Priyanka, 36, and their four daughters. The SHO said the ceiling of a room in the house collapsed in the morning, killing Shankar and his two daughters — Shivani, 13, and Pooja, 5. The injured daughters were rushed to different hospitals.
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