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| 800 evacuated, 15 killed in flood-hit Ladakh | | | Jammu, Aug 7
More than 800 people were evacuated to safer places in Ladakh where flash floods triggered by heavy rains have killed at 15 people including three Army personnel, officials said today.
The frontier region remained cut off from the rest of the country for the fifth day due to closure of both Leh-Srinager and Leh-Manali roads while the Army had deployed about 300 jawans and officers and set up five "tented village camps" for relief and rescue work, they said.
"We have rescued 800 people from submerged areas till now and provided food over 2,000, most of whom have lost their houses to the flash floods. The Army is trying to reach out to people in all affected places," Defence officials said.
A major rescue operation was on in Leh and Kargil where the flood situation was " very grim" with some 20 villages hit by flash floods and 22 bridges damaged, they said.
It was likely to become worse if the rains continued and all Army cantonments in Ladakh had been put on high alert and Several formations were providing food, medicines and shelter to the affected, they said The Crisis Management Squad constituted for food control said floods had affected the entire arid mountainous region of Ladakh.
They said 15 people have either been swept away in flash floods or died in incidents of house collapse since torrential rains lashed the region.
Phayang, some 20 km from Leh, was the worst affected with almost all families of the village rendered homeless, they said adding two Nepali labourers working near the village stream were reported missing. |
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