Locals carry patient on makeshift plank due to unavailability of road in Pithoragarh
News | July 21, 2020 13:33 ISTPeople in Pithoragarh's Munsyari on July 20 carried a patient to the hospital on a makeshift plank.
People in Pithoragarh's Munsyari on July 20 carried a patient to the hospital on a makeshift plank.
Vehicular movement on Prithvi Highway in Nepal was disrupted on Monday due to landslides triggered by incessant rainfall at different places.
At least 60 people were killed and around 41 got missing following flood and landslides in various parts of Nepal.
Two children were killed, many houses damaged and a few vehicles mangled in a landslide at Gurupur in Mangaluru on Sunday, police said.
The victims are normally freelance miners who settle near giant mounds of discarded earth that has been mined in bulk by heavy machinery. The freelance miners who scavenge for bits of jade usually work and live at the base of the mounds of earth, which become particularly unstable during the rainy season.
A woman student was killed in a landslide near the Raj Bhawan here, prompting the administration to ask people living in vulnerable areas to move to safer places," officials said.
High-altitude Imphal-Jiribam highway was cut off after massive landslide.
At least 20 people have died and several others are injured in a landslide in Assam. The landslide hit the Barak Valley region in southern Assam. As per reports, the region where the landslide has hit witnessed heavy rains in the past few days.
A road passing through J&K's Ramban recently received heavy rockfall.
The Jammu-Srinagar National Highway was closed for vehicular traffic due to landslides in Ramban district on Tuesday, officials said. Traffic on the highway has been suspended after the landslide hit the road near Peera on the highway.
The Jammu-Srinagar National Highway, the only all-weather road linking Kashmir with the rest of the country, was reopened for vehicular traffic on Thursday evening after remaining closed for four days following multiple landslides, officials said.
Over 5,000 vehicles are stranded on the Jammu-Srinagar national highway for the past two days due to landslides, officials said on Thursday
A resident of Nalhach village, the injured teenager was taken to a nearby hospital where he was declared dead, the SP said. The other two boys escaped without any injuries, he added.
The spokesman said the response plan is being drawn up "by the government with the support from the UN and our partners, prioritizing shelter, water and sanitation and non-food items."
The 270-km-long highway, which is the only all-weather road link between Kashmir and the rest of the country, was blocked by the landslide at the Digdol area in the district on Thursday night, they said.
The highway has mostly remained blocked since last Thursday, when massive snowfall swept Jammu and Kashmir.
Thousands of commuters were stranded as the Jammu-Srinagar National highway was again blocked by a massive landslide in Ramban district on Sunday afternoon, only hours after traffic resumed on the route.
Eight persons travelling on two motorcycles and a four wheeler have been killed after coming under the rubble of a landslide at Chandikadhar in Rudraprayag district, police said on Sunday.
District Disaster Management officer NK Joshi said there is no information yet about loss of lives in the incident.
Madhya Pradesh: Heavy downpour triggered landslides in Seoni. No casualty was reported.
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