Landslides in chamoli amid heavy rain leave 1 dead, 11 missing
Dehradun, Sept. 19 -- One person has been killed, 11 people are feared trapped under debris and 20 have been injured as landslides and flooding triggered by heavy rain flattened more than 30 houses in four villages of Uttarakhand's Chamoli district on Thursday.
One body was recovered from the debris, while three people -- two women and a child -- were rescued alive in Kuntari Lagaphali village, the State Emergency Operation Centre (SEOC) in Dehradun said.The deceased was identified as Narendra Singh (42), it said. Eleven people -- seven from Kuntari Lagaphali and two each from Kuntari Lagasarpani and Dhurma -- are missing, the SEOC said.
Chief minister Pushkar Singh Dhami had told reporters earlier in Dehradun that 14 people were missing following the landslides. All four affected villages come under the Nandanagar area, about 260 km from Dehradun and 50 km from the Chamoli district headquarters at Gopeshwar. Nandanagar is already reeling from land subsidence....
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