Forty-three people have been killed and more than 37 gone missing in Himachal Pradesh due to the ravages of weather — cloudburst, flash floods, landslide — since the onset of monsoon last month, officials on Friday said. Monsoon hit the state on June 20 and has since then cost it Rs 5000 crore in damages.
Of the 43 dead, 14 were killed in cloudbursts, eight in flash floods, and one in a landslide, while seven were drowned. The most deaths, 17, took place in Mandi district where ten instances of cloudbursts, flash floods and landslides wreaked havoc on Tuesday. A search is still on for 31 people missing from this district alone, officials said.
On Friday, the personnel from NDRF rescued 65 people trapped in Bharad, Deji, Payala, and Rukchui villages after heavy rain. The downpour, followed by landslides, damaged roads and caused rivers to swell, which cut off many villages and deposited debris to people`s houses and fields.
More than 150 houses, 106 cattle sheds, 31 vehicles, 14 bridges and several roads have suffered damage, while 164 cattle have perished in the various inclemencies. Five relief camps have been set up to house the 402 people rescued, 348 of them from Mandi alone.
Meanwhile, 280 roads, including 156 in Mandi, 49 in Sirmaur, and 36 in Kullu districts, were rendered out of bounds for vehicular traffic, the State Emergency Operation Centre (SEOC) said.
A total of 332 transformers and 784 water supply schemes are disrupted in the state, it said. The Local met office has issued an Orange Alert, warning of heavy to very heavy rain in isolated parts of the state from Saturday to Tuesday. Intermittent rain continued to lash parts of Himachal.
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No. of people rescued by the NDRF
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