DEHRADUN, August 1, 2024 (TBINN)
A seven-year-old child Rizwan was swept away by the swirling waters of a stream in Haldwani in Nainital District. He is yet to be found.
Body of a woman in Devchauli in Chamoli District, who was missing since Wednesday Evening after a house-collapse, has been found.
In Bharpur Village in Bahadarabad Area of Haridwar District, four people were killed and six injured after a house collapsed due to heavy rain on Wednesday night, police said.
In another incident reported from Haridwar District, two persons were electrocuted at Roorkee Bus Stand.
Three members of a family — Bhanu Prasad (50 years), his wife Neelam Devi (45 years) and son Vipin (28 years of age) — were killed in a land-slide which damaged their roadside restaurant following a cloudburst in Jakhanyali Village of Tehri District’s Ghansali Area, officials said.
Vipin was rescued but died while being taken to A.I.I.M.S. in Hrishikesh, Tehri District Disaster Management Officer Brijesh Bhatt said.
Nearly a dozen four-wheelers parked along the riverbed of Sukhi in Haridwar’s Kharkhari Area were washed away following torrential rain on Wednesday Evening.
Teams of National Disaster Response Force (N.D.R.F.), S.D.R.F. and the administration have been deployed in affected areas of the state, officials said.
A total of 450 pilgrims bound for Kedarnath got stranded beyond Bhimbali along Gaurikund-Kedarnath Trek Route when 20-25 metres of the stretch were washed out by heavy rain on Wednesday Night.
Disaster Secretary Vinod Kumar Suman said 200 passengers stranded on Kedarnath Route due to falling stones and the washing away of the stretch near Bhimbali Chowki have been moved to safer places Process to rescue the rest with the help of helicopters is under way, he informed.
The trek route to Himalayan temple is blocked by boulders at Ghoraparav, Linchauli, Badi Linchauli and Bhimabali.
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