Landslide in Himachal Pradesh’s Kinnaur district | Updates
The HinduA Himachal Pradesh Road Transport bus with several passengers and at least two other vehicles were badly hit by heavy boulders, following a landslide in Nigulseri in Kinnaur district on August 11. Here are the updates : 10 bodies recovered, 13 injured pulled out of the rubble Ten people were killed, 13 rescued and several others feared buried under debris after a landslide trapped a bus and other vehicles in Himachal Pradesh's Kinnaur district, PTI quoted officials as saying. The landslide and shooting of stones occurred at Chaura village on national highway number five in Nigulsari of Nichar tehsil in Kinnaur district at around noon, State Disaster Management Director Sudesh Kumar Mokhta said. NDRF, ITBP, CISF and local police carrying out rescue operations: CM Thakur Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakur told the State Assembly that there are reports that 50-60 people are trapped under the debris, but the exact number was not known. The teams of the National Disaster Response Force, the Indo-Tibetan Border Police, the Central Industrial Security Force and the local police reached the spot for carrying out the rescue operation, Mr. Thakur said.