Rains wreak havoc in Uttarakhand
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Bodies of 18 children were on Thursday recovered from under the debris of their school in Bageshwar district even as heavy rains continued to wreak havoc in Uttarakhand, killing two more persons and flattening at least 100 houses. With heavy rains continuing in Uttarakhand and most of the rivers flowing above the danger mark, the Disaster Management and Mitigation Centre issued a red alert in the entire state. In Bageshwar district where a school collapsed on Wednesday, rescue workers completed their operation, taking out the bodies of 18 children. The bodies will be handed over to the families after a postmortem, police said.
Panic-stricken people were leaving some of the disaster-prone villages particularly in the hilly Bageshwar and Rudraprayag districts. Most of the people in Nagjagai in Rudraprayag, Sumgarh and Saling in Bageshwar district have left, they said.
The hilly areas bore the brunt of the heavy rains in the state where over 100 houses collapsed overnight in different areas, officials said here.
Nearly half a dozen houses were flattened in the hill resort of Mussoorie due to overnight heavy rains. In Harsiabagad area of Bageshwar district, nearly 12 houses collapsed. An old woman died after her house collapsed in Mussoorie. In a similar incident, a man died at Bhawali town in Nainital district. So far, rains have claimed 43 lives in the state during the monsoon season.
The Chardham yatra to four hilly shrines of Badrinath, Kedarnath, Yamunotri and Gangotri, was hit by heavy rains which have triggered a series of landslides.
In Dehradun, heavy rains disrupted normal life with water inundating scores of houses in localities like Doiwala and Majri goan areas.
Met office here said heavy rains would continue to lash the state during the next few hours. Nainital recorded 221 mm of rainfall, followed by Dehradun at 142 mm.
Ganga, Yamuna and its tributaries were flowing above the danger level in most of the areas in the state.
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