Uttarkashi, September 3: At least nine people have been killed after a van fell into a gorge on Monday. According to a tweet by ANI, the incident took place in Uttarkashi. More details are awaited. The hill state has been receiving incessant rains, forcing schools in Dehradun, Paudi, Tehri and Haridwar to shut down. The state and national disaster management bodies SDRF and NDRF have been put on high alert. The Regional Met Office has predicted that the hill state will receive heavy to very heavy rains till September 3.
The heavy downpour has triggered landslides in Badrinath, Kedarnath and Yamunotri highways. Reports inform that more than 200 link roads in the hill regions are out of bounds for traffic owing to damage inflicted by continuous and heavy showers.
Uttarakhand: 9 dead after a van fell into a gorge in Uttarkashi. pic.twitter.com/ORrop5wOgE
— ANI (@ANI) September 3, 2018
In the last week, at least two people were killed and 34 others were injured after a bus they were travelling in fell into a gorge in Uttarakhand’s Tehri Garhwal district. Reports informed that the accident took place at 8 am on the Link Road near Badrinath National Highway. The bus was on its way to Rishikesh and had 36 people on board, including a driver and a conductor.
On August 29, four people were killed and one was injured and six others are feared trapped under the debris after their houses collapsed due to landslides in Uttarakhand's Tehri Garhwal district. According to a report by PTI, four of the bodies were removed and the injured has been shifted to the hospital.
On August 26, two persons, including a woman, were killed and 10 injured when a cab fell into a gorge on the Rishikesh-Gangotri national highway in New Tehri today. According to a PTI report, the cab, carrying 12 people, was on its way to Chamba from Chjinyalisaur in Uttarkashi district. SSP Yogendra Singh Rawat informed that the car fell into a 150-metre-deep gorge near Bailgaon in Tehri district, killing the driver and a woman passenger on the spot.
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