Officials in Uttarakhand have been undertaking rescue operations as incessant rains batter the state. After a bridge collapsed in Rudraprayag on Tuesday, officials carried out the rescue operation to safely evacuate the people stranded. Earlier in the day, some tourists who were stranded in Ganga river near Muni Ki Reti in Uttarakhand’s Rishikesh were rescued by the teams of State Disaster Response Force. The heavy rains have led to demolition of buildings, triggered landslides, and breached national highways.
The incessant rains took lives of four people in the state while nine others went missing and forced to suspend the Chardham Yatra for two days as national highways to Badrinath, Kedarnath and Gangotri shrines were cut off, reported PTI.
Rudraprayag district disaster management officer Nandan Singh Rajwar said a landslide hit a camp at Lincholi on Kedarnath trek route damaging four shops in which one person from Nepal was killed and a trader went missing.
Around 114 workers were trapped inside a tunnel called 'Edit-II' of the Rishikesh-Karnaprayag rail line project when the water of a flooded stream in Shivpuri area gushed into it. The tunnel was filled with water up to four metres, Muni-Ki-Reti police station SHO Ritesh Shah said.
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In Garhwal district, a bridge in Madyamaheshwar valley’s Bantoli broke down leaving more than 100 Madyamaheshwar-bound pilgrims stranded. Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami held a meeting with senior officials to review the situation in the state and the Chardham yatra was suspended for two days till August 15. A defence training academy on the outskirts of Dehradun also collapsed, the officials said, the report added.