Dehradun, Oct. 17 -- Badrinath shrine area on Friday witnessed slashing away of mass of glaciers along with a landslide above Kahnchan Ganga stream on the Kuber Mountain. No loss of lives or properties were reported in the incident.
As per Chamoli district administration officials, glacier broke off from Kuber Parvat above the Kanchan Ganga water stream in Badrinath shrine area. As glacier crumbled down the stream, local public at shrine area were scared fearing bigger impact but no damage or losses were reported due to the incident. Officials said that breakage of glaciers are recurring natural phenomenon in the higher hills of Uttarakhand. However necessary preventive steps were taken to prevent any untoward incident.
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