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12 killed, 40 missing as rains pound
Uttarakhand, Jammu, Himachal
Sunday August 05, 2012 11:07:13 PM,
IANS
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Dehradun/Jammu/Manali/New Delhi: Twelve people have died, nearly 40 are missing and
hundreds are trapped after torrential rain led to flash floods,
cloud bursts and landslides in sub-Himalayan Uttarakhand, Jammu
and Himachal Pradesh, officials said Sunday. The incessant rain is
likely to continue, the met office reported.
Rescue operations are in full swing in Uttarakhand and Jammu.
While 12 people have died in Uttarakhand due to flash floods and
landslides, officials said, hundreds were left stranded in various
places in Jammu where the rains caused landslides.
In Himachal, an alert has been sounded after flash floods
triggered by the rising water level of Beas river, hit upper
Manali. People living close to the river on the Manali-Rohtang
road have been asked to move to safer places.
In Uttarakhand, Garhwal, Chamoli and Uttarkashi districts are
worst-affected.
Personnel of the Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP), police and
army are searching for 19 labourers who went missing at a hydel
project in Assi Ganga in Uttarkashi, about 180 km from here, late
Saturday, officials said.
Officials told IANS that as many as 40 people were missing across
the state.
The water levels in Bhagirathi, Alkananda and Yamuna rivers are
running at danger levels, officials said.
Met officials in New Delhi said incessant rains would continue in
both the regions for another day.
"We had given a timely warning to the state agencies so that
evacuation could start in villages and remote districts. Rains
will continue for the next 24 hours," an official from India
Meteorological Department (IMD) told IANS.
There were about half a dozen landslides on the 300-km Jammu-Srinagar
National Highway, considered a lifeline to the Kashmir valley.
Highways connecting the mountainous districts of Poonch and
Rajouri in northwest Jammu and Doda and Kishtwar in the northeast
also reported similar landslides.
In the Jammu region of Jammu and Kashmir, over a dozen people were
rescued from Samba district where the Basantar river flooded its
banks.
National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA), headquartered in
New Delhi, has not yet sent any rescue team to Uttarakhand since
the state government assured it of having enough manpower for
rescue and relief.
"We have a 45-member team ready, but the Uttarakhand government
has said they have enough ITBP personnel to take care of the
situation," K.M. Singh, an NDMA member, told IANS.
"We are in constant touch with the government. If they want any
help, we would immediately send our team," he said.
Three state-run hydel projects in Uttarkashi district of
Uttarakhand have also been damaged. Major hydel projects have been
stopped.
The state's disaster management teams are working on restoring
communication lines and providing immediate relief to pilgrims on
the annual Char Dham yatra stuck on isolated routes.
"The downpour has slowed. But we are still working on restoring
communication lines and helping victims in pilgrimage areas," said
an official from the emergency control room in Chamoli.
The yatra to Gangotri, Yamunotri, Badrinath and Kedarnath has been
halted due to landslides and washing away of roads, said
officials.
In Himachal, the Beas river's course has changed at several places
between Kanchnikoot and Nehru Kund.
Manali Sub-divisional Magistrate Balbir Thakur Sunday said the
administration had sounded an alert, cautioning people living in
the vicinity of the river to move to safer places.
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