Uttarakhand s Chief Minister visited the areas affected by Tuesday s cloudburst
Dehradun:
A day after a cloudburst hit Devprayag in Uttarakhand s Tehri district, Chief Minister Tirath Singh Rawat on Wednesday visited the affected areas along with his ministerial colleagues for an on-the-spot assessment of the situation.
Accompanied by Cabinet Minister Subodh Uniyal, Disaster Management Minister Dhan Singh Rawat and local MLA Vinod Kandari, the chief minister also met the affected people and assured them of all help.
He asked District Magistrate Iva Shrivastava to extend assistance to the affected people at the earliest.
The cloudburst on Tuesday razed two municipal buildings to the ground and damaged several shops.It also damaged pedestrian bridges, water pipelines and electricity supply lines.
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Since most of these shops were closed due to lockdown, no casualty has been reported yet. Photo: ANI
Updated: May 11, 2021, 10:44 PM IST
In a major incident, several shops and houses damaged due to a cloudburst in the Devprayag area of Uttarakhand s Tehri district. The entire area is covered with debris.
On Tuesday evening, at about 5 pm in Devprayag, the Shanta river took a gigantic form after a cloudburst on the upper end. The debris in the river caused a lot of damage in the Shanti Bazaar area.
Fortunately, no loss of life has been reported in the incident. DGP Ashok Kumar informed that shops were closed due to curfew and there was no loss of life. The SDRF team has reached there and help is being provided. Due to cloudburst in the Tehri district, the water level of the rivers has increased.
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The friends had gone to a forest near Kundi village in Uttarakhand for hunting. (Representational)
New Tehri:
A youth died from a bullet injury while three others died by suicide while on a hunting expedition at a forest near Kundi village in Uttarakhand s Tehri district, an official said on Sunday.
While one of them died due to accidental fire from a gun, the three other died by suicide, apparently due to a sense of guilt over the incident, SDM PR Chauhan said.
Their three friends, who had gone to the forest along with them, informed villagers about it, he said.