KULLU: Five people died and at least 15 were reported missing as cloudbursts, flash floods and landslides struck several parts of Mandi district in Himachal Pradesh in the early hours of Tuesday. All educational institutes in Mandi and Kangra districts remained closed on Tuesday.
According to HP State Emergency Centre, Mandi was battered by 10 cloudbursts and three flash floods on a single day. The Chandigarh-Manali national highway remained blocked since Monday evening and had not been reopened till the filing of this report. Many tourists had to spend the night in their vehicles, some in tunnels.
As many as 233 people were rescued by NDRF and SDRF teams.
Cloudbursts hit when victims were sleeping
Cloudbursts hit Gohar, Karsog, Dharampur and Thunag areas of the district between 1am and 4am, triggering flash floods that swept away 18 houses and over three dozen vehicles as people ran for their lives in the dark.
Nine people were washed away in a village in Syanj area of Gohar subdivision. According to officials, the victims were sleeping in two houses near the Syanj rivulet when the flash flood, caused by a cloudburst, roared in. In nearby Bara village, six people were trapped in debris after their house collapsed. Four of them were rescued but two died. Three more people went missing in a flash flood in Talwara village, which too is in Gohar.
In Karsog, four people went missing, and one died in the old bazaar area in a flash flood, again triggered by a cloudburst.
An unidentified body was found in Neri Kotla near Jogindernagar, and another was recovered from Talwara village in Gohar in the evening, taking the toll to five. At least 30 stranded people were rescued from Kutti bypass and Karsog.
The Patikari hydroelectric power project on Bakhli rivulet, near Pandoh, was badly damaged in the flood, and an under-construction tunnel collapsed on the Pathankot-Mandi highway after a massive landslide at Bijni village. NHAI workers at the site ran for their lives as the head section of the tunnel started caving in.
According to HP State Emergency Centre, Mandi was battered by 10 cloudbursts and three flash floods on a single day. The Chandigarh-Manali national highway remained blocked since Monday evening and had not been reopened till the filing of this report. Many tourists had to spend the night in their vehicles, some in tunnels.
As many as 233 people were rescued by NDRF and SDRF teams.
Cloudbursts hit when victims were sleeping
Cloudbursts hit Gohar, Karsog, Dharampur and Thunag areas of the district between 1am and 4am, triggering flash floods that swept away 18 houses and over three dozen vehicles as people ran for their lives in the dark.
Nine people were washed away in a village in Syanj area of Gohar subdivision. According to officials, the victims were sleeping in two houses near the Syanj rivulet when the flash flood, caused by a cloudburst, roared in. In nearby Bara village, six people were trapped in debris after their house collapsed. Four of them were rescued but two died. Three more people went missing in a flash flood in Talwara village, which too is in Gohar.
In Karsog, four people went missing, and one died in the old bazaar area in a flash flood, again triggered by a cloudburst.
An unidentified body was found in Neri Kotla near Jogindernagar, and another was recovered from Talwara village in Gohar in the evening, taking the toll to five. At least 30 stranded people were rescued from Kutti bypass and Karsog.
The Patikari hydroelectric power project on Bakhli rivulet, near Pandoh, was badly damaged in the flood, and an under-construction tunnel collapsed on the Pathankot-Mandi highway after a massive landslide at Bijni village. NHAI workers at the site ran for their lives as the head section of the tunnel started caving in.
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