2 killed, over 15 missing in Himachal’s Kangra after flash floods triggered by cloudbursts
Two persons were killed and more than 15 were missing after cloudbursts led to flash floods in Himachal Pradesh’s Kangra district on Wednesday, PTI reported.
Three persons were also swept away because of the flash floods in Kullu district.
In Kangra, Deputy Commissioner Hemraj Bairwa told The Indian Express that two bodies had been recovered in the district so far.
About 15 to 20 workers at a labour colony near the Indira Priyadarshini Hydroelectric project site at Khaniyara near Dharamshala were feared to have been swept away after a surge in the water level of the Manuni river, PTI quoted unidentified officials as saying.
The project work had been suspended following heavy rainfall and the workers were resting in temporary shelters near the site when the floodwater flowed towards the labour colony, the officials said. The workers were swept away in the surge, they added.
Dharamshala MLA Sudhir Sharma also said that about 15 to 20 workers had been swept away.
“All of them were living in sheds built along the banks of the khad,” the Bharatiya Janata Party said. “Such a heart-wrenching incident has perhaps never been witnessed before.”
Personnel from the State Disaster Response Force and the administration were carrying out search and rescue operations at the site, PTI reported.
Bairwa also told The Indian Express that efforts were being made to identify...
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