In North India,Uttarakhand worst hit as rain,floods

Sunday, June 23, 2013

In North India,Uttarakhand worst hit as rain,floods kill at least 60 in north India .uttarakhand has born the brunt.Floods and landslides brought on by never stopping rain over the past 48 hours have left a trial of destruction across north India killing at least 60 people and injuring are uncountable leaving around the villages.
At least 39 people has died and floods have washed away four hundred roads,scores of telephone towers,vehicles and houses as wellas a helicopter and left some 57,000 pilgrims to Badrinath,Kedernath,Yamuntatri and Gangotri stranded.The Army has been called in to rescue them as well as local villagers.
In the worst-affected Rudraprayay,rescue workers have found bodies of five of the people believed to have been killed in a cloudburst near Rambode near Kedernath.Two persons are feared dead in a landslide in the area
and several are missing.About 400 roads
have been damaged.
Many pilgrims start their journey to the temple on foot,local market have been washed away by a raging Mandakini river.Some 3,000 pilgrims have reportedly taken shelter with villagers in gori.
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