Uttarakhand Floods: Four Dead, Highways Blocked, and Rescue Operations Underway

Uttarakhand Floods and Landslides: Four Dead, Highways Blocked to Badrinath and Kedarnath, Widespread Infrastructure Damage, and Ongoing Rescue Operations

Uttarakhand has been flooded and impacted by heavy rains, causing landslides and a lot of damage. In the state on Monday four deaths were recorded and nine people were said to have been washed away by floods ushered in by the relentless downpour. Unfortunately, the Chardham yatra has been stopped for two days due to bad weather as all the main roads to the Badrinath, Kedarnath and Gangotri shrines were blocked due to landslides.

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In the Pere village of Rudraprayag District on the Kedarnath trek route, a landslide wrecked a camp and affected four shops out of which four were completely crushed and one confirmed death and one person still missing. The body of Kalu Bahadur, of 26 years from Gorkha district in Nepal , was found but the search is on for the missing trader. Also, two corpses came to the surface in the rain-fed water bodies; one at the Shiva temple in Rishikesh and Miranagar where one of them was identified as 35-year- old Dinesh Panwar.

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The calamity also impaired the infrastructures considerably as well. In the Laxmanjhula area of Pauri district, a landslide occurred and buried a resort with five people being trapped under the debris. However, the rescue teams got a chance to rescue them. The continued rains also brought down a bridge in Banstoli of Garhwal district; with over a hundred people on the way to the Kedarneth over a hundred pilgrims were cut off.

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Adding to the woes, a Defence training academy in Dehradun suffers building collapse early Monday morning due to flooded heard but there was no loss of life as the building had been vacated earlier. The continuing rain has affected several rivers with the Ganga at Haridwar going above the danger level has flooded many villages and damaged the sugarcane crop.

The Chief Minister of the state, Pushkar Singh Dhami, has been closely monitoring the situation and rescue operation is on continuously even during the night. The concerned MeT department has already warned of heavy to very heavy rains in six districts wherein the administrations must stay highly alerted and active in terms of rescue operations in the flooded regions.

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