Shimla: Nine tourists were killed and three others were injured when heavy stones fell due to a massive landslide near Basteri village in the district on Sunday afternoon. transgender District of Himachal Pradesh.
The tourists were coming to Sangla from Chitkul, the last inhabited village near the border with China in Kinnaur, when incessant rains caused a landslide on the Sangla-Chitkul road.
Huge rocks and boulders fell on the road and a bridge over the Bapsa river, which connects Batseri village to the rest of Kinnaur, collapsed. A family of three people from Sikar district of Rajasthan – Maya Devi Biyani (55), her son Anurag Biyani (31) and daughter Richa Biyani (25) – was one of those killed. The remaining six were identified as Pratiksha Sunil Patil (27) from Nagpur in Maharashtra; Deepa Sharma (34) from Jaipur; Amogh Bapat (27) and Satish Katakbar (34) from Chhattisgarh; Umrab Singh (42) and Kumar Ulhas Vedpathak (37), the drivers of Tagore Garden in Delhi.
the injured include Shiril Obroy (39) from West Delhi; Naveen Bhardwaj (37) from Kharar in Mohali and Ranjit Singh (45), a local from Batseri village in Sangla.
Several landslides occurred near Basti on Sunday afternoon due to the recent rains. One pedestrian injured in another landslide in kinnauri district, police said.
Prime minister Narendra Modi Expressed condolences to the dead and announced an ex-gratia of Rs 2 lakh each to the next of kin of those killed in the accident and Rs 50,000 to the injured. Condoling the deaths, Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakur Necessary instructions have been issued to the Kinnaur administration to provide all possible help to the affected people, he said.
The tourists were coming to Sangla from Chitkul, the last inhabited village near the border with China in Kinnaur, when incessant rains caused a landslide on the Sangla-Chitkul road.
Huge rocks and boulders fell on the road and a bridge over the Bapsa river, which connects Batseri village to the rest of Kinnaur, collapsed. A family of three people from Sikar district of Rajasthan – Maya Devi Biyani (55), her son Anurag Biyani (31) and daughter Richa Biyani (25) – was one of those killed. The remaining six were identified as Pratiksha Sunil Patil (27) from Nagpur in Maharashtra; Deepa Sharma (34) from Jaipur; Amogh Bapat (27) and Satish Katakbar (34) from Chhattisgarh; Umrab Singh (42) and Kumar Ulhas Vedpathak (37), the drivers of Tagore Garden in Delhi.
the injured include Shiril Obroy (39) from West Delhi; Naveen Bhardwaj (37) from Kharar in Mohali and Ranjit Singh (45), a local from Batseri village in Sangla.
Several landslides occurred near Basti on Sunday afternoon due to the recent rains. One pedestrian injured in another landslide in kinnauri district, police said.
Prime minister Narendra Modi Expressed condolences to the dead and announced an ex-gratia of Rs 2 lakh each to the next of kin of those killed in the accident and Rs 50,000 to the injured. Condoling the deaths, Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakur Necessary instructions have been issued to the Kinnaur administration to provide all possible help to the affected people, he said.
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