Shimla, July 25
Shooting boulders triggered by a landslide hit a tourist vehicle near Batseri, 8 km from Sangla in Kinnaur district, killing nine persons on Sunday afternoon.
Duel over parking just before tragedy
On way to Chitkul, the Tempo Traveller driver had an altercation with the driver of a car over parking. Minutes later, boulders hit the Tempo Traveller, killing nine passengers.
The vehicle, a Tempo Traveller, carrying 11 persons was passing through the spot where the rolling stones fell. While eight persons died on the spot, one succumbed to injuries on way to hospital. Three others, including a pedestrian, sustained injuries. The deceased were identified as Maya Devi Banyani (55), her son Anurag Biyani (31) and daughter Richa Biyana (35), all of Sikar (Rajasthan), driver Umrab Singh (42) of Delhi, Pratiksha Sunil Patil (27) of Maharashtra, Deepa Sharma (34) of Rajasthan, Amogh Bapat (27) and Satish Katakbar (34) of Chhattisgarh and Kumar Ulhas (37).
A bailey bridge on the Baspa collapsed due to a rockslide in Himachal Pradesh’s Kinnaur district on Sunday Kaza highway blocked for 12 hours.
SHIMLA/MANALI: Nine tourists were killed, and two others injured on Sunday afternoon after heavy boulders, set loose by a massive landslide, fell on their vehicle near Basteri village in Kinnaur district of Himachal Pradesh. A pedestrian was also injured in another landslide in Kinnaur district. The tourists and the driver of the Force Traveller van were coming from Chitkul, considered the last inhabited village near the border with China in Kinnaur, to Sangla, when the landslide hit the Sangla-Chitkul road.
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Nine tourists were killed after heavy boulders fell on their tempo traveller in a landslide near Basteri in Kinnaur district of Himachal Pradesh on Sunday, police said. Multiple landslides triggered by recent rains occurred near Basteri on Sangla-Chitkul road at 1.25 pm, resulting in a bridge collapse and damage to some vehicles, they said. A video of a bridge collapse in Basteri has gone viral on social media. In the video, boulders could be seen rolling downhill, causing the bridge to collapse. According to the police, nine people died and two others injured after heavy boulders fell on a tempo traveller. The passengers were going to Sangla from Chitkul.
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