A cloudburst in a border village of Nepal triggered a flash flood in Khotila village on the Indian side as waters of the swelling Kali river rushed into homes, filling them with sludge and killing a woman.
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Kulagad bridge suffered damage due to heavy rainfall
PITHORAGARH: Heavy rains in Pithoragarh have caused more than 50 villages along the Nepal and China border along Uttarakhand to be completely cut off from road access and from Dharchula, the tehsil headquarters.
The rains also washed away a 48-metre-long concrete bridge at Kulagad on Tanakpur-Tawaghat highway early on Thursday, Dharchula sub-divisional magistrate (SDM) AK Shukla said. The Border Roads Organisation (BRO) has put logs to cross the runlet, he added. Kulagad is around 10 km away from Dharchula. The tehsil administration is in the process of getting a Bailey bridge constructed to resume movement, Shukla further said.