Residents of Marangching and Pongrinlong villages in Manipur have called for an indefinite shutdown of railway construction works in the jurisdiction of Marangching village.
The village authority of Marangjing and Pongrinlong village asserted that authorities concerned had not uphold the nine-point MoU signed between state government, NFR Railway and affected villagers of the Marangjing landslide on July 20, 2022.
Heavy rainfall destroys paddy fields at Liyai and Tungjoy villages bordering Nagaland Our CorrespondentImphal, July 9 (EMN): The death toll of Manipur landslide has gone up to 50 after one more body was recovered from the debris on the tenth day of search operation for survivors, officials said on July 9. The landslide took place at railway construction camp at Marangching part 5 areas, about 75 west of the state capital, on the midnight of June 29. The landslide also hit 107 Territorial Army (TA) camps of the Indian army deployed at the area for protecting the construction site. A senior state government official who is monitoring the situation from Noney district headquarters when contacted informed that the search team recovered one more body adding that the search will continue as 11 are still untraceable. Among the 18 injured persons who were rescued from ground zero on the first day of the search, seven of them are presently undergoing treatment at the Assam Rifles multispecialit
Seventy-nine people have been confirmed as victims while 47 bodies have been recovered from the accident site at Marangching village in Noney district