New Delhi [India], August 11 (ANI): Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday spoke to Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Jairam Thakur following a massive landslide in Himachal Pradesh's Kinnaur which claimed the lives of two people and trapped over 50 people under the debris.
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TAPOVAN (India) • Indian rescuers yesterday began drilling from above a debris-filled tunnel in a desperate bid to reach dozens of people who have been missing since a flash flood four days earlier that was most likely caused by a breaking glacier.. Read more at straitstimes.com.
Indian Rescuers Try Drilling From Above Into Disaster Tunnel By Jalees ANDRABI
02/11/21 AT 12:31 AM
Indian rescuers began drilling from above a debris-filled tunnel Thursday in a desperate bid to reach dozens of people missing since a flash flood likely caused by a breaking glacier four days earlier.
Workers have toiled night and day clearing rocks and mud from the tunnel at a damaged hydroelectric plant at Tapovan in Uttarakhand in northern India since Sunday s disaster.
More than 170 people are missing elsewhere in the Himalayan state, slightly smaller than Switzerland, after the disaster. Because of the amount of debris, only 34 bodies have been recovered so far.