Video: Landslide hits Shimla's Lindi Dhar village; monsoon mayhem continues across Himachal

NEW DELHI: A landslide struck Lindi Dhar colony successful Shimla territory connected Thursday amid relentless monsoon rains lashing Himachal Pradesh, adding to the bid of earthy disasters battering the elevation state.

A video of the landslide, wide shared connected societal media, shows ample chunks of onshore slipping away.

This incidental comes arsenic Himachal Pradesh reels nether the interaction of aggravated monsoon activity, which has claimed astatine slightest 51 lives since June 20. Of these, 30 deaths were owed to floods, landslides, and cloudbursts, portion 21 were the effect of roadworthy accidents, according to the Himachal Pradesh Disaster Management Authority (HPDMA).In Mandi territory alone, the decease toll from cloudbursts and flash floods has risen to 13, with 29 radical inactive missing. Officials said 10 cloudbursts, 3 flash floods, and a landslide were reported successful Mandi connected Tuesday, severely damaging homes, roads, and infrastructure. Over 150 houses and 14 bridges person been damaged, portion 162 cattle person perished. Search and rescue operations are being carried retired by teams from the NDRF, SDRF, police, and location guards.

“Currently, our apical precedence is rescue and alleviation work, not harm assessment. But arsenic per archetypal departmental data, we estimation damages of astir Rs 300 crore crossed sectors,” said DC Rana, Special Secretary successful the authorities Revenue and Disaster Management Department.Chief curate Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu and Leader of Opposition Jai Ram Thakur some visited affected areas. Sukhu assured that onshore volition beryllium allotted to displaced residents, adjacent if it means involving the Union authorities to wide wood onshore for resettlement.

Thakur, meanwhile, warned that the fig of missing could emergence and suggested air-dropping nutrient supplies to cut-off areas.The State Emergency Operation Centre (SEOC) reported that 261 roads crossed the authorities stay blocked, including 186 successful Mandi district. Nearly 600 transformers and 797 h2o proviso schemes person been disrupted. The Manali-Keylong roadworthy is besides closed owed to flooding adjacent Solang Nallah, with postulation rerouted via Rohtang Pass.The Meteorological Department has issued an orangish alert for dense to precise dense rainfall from July 5 to 9 and warned of imaginable flash floods successful parts of Kangra, Mandi, Hamirpur, Shimla, Solan, and Sirmaur districts.