Cloud burst in Uttarakhand: Many houses in Uttarkashi and Rudraprayag are buried in mud, people saved their lives by reaching high areas

The photo is of Kumrada village in Uttarkashi district. Many houses have been damaged due to cloudburst here.

Clouds have burst once again in Uttarakhand. These incidents have occurred in Kumarada village in Uttarkashi and Nakot in Rudraprayag district. Here the walls and gaushalas of many houses were swept away by the flow of strong water, along with the flow a large part of the soil of the mountains was washed away. Due to this, the soil of the people was filled up to several feet. The villagers somehow saved their lives by climbing high places. There is no information about the death of anyone in the accident at the moment.

Apart from this, many areas of Tehri have also been overexploited. Here the SDRF and local police are engaged in relief work. The weather in Uttarakhand has been bad for the last 4 days. There is continuous rain and snowfall in the hilly areas. A day earlier, there was a hailstorm in Chamoli district on Monday evening.

Teams of local administration and SDRF are engaged in relief and rescue. (Rudraprayag Narcota)

After the cloudburst, garbage also came to the homes of the people with rain water. (Rudraprayag Narcota)

The rescue team faced difficulties in reaching the site of the incident. (Rudraprayag Narcota)

People’s homes were flooded to several feet, somehow reaching a height and saving lives. (Kumarada Uttarkashi)

Due to cloudburst, the houses built in the mountainous area have suffered a lot of damage. (Kumarada Uttarkashi)

More than 10 died due to glacier breakdown
Earlier, on April 23, the glacier broke into the Malari-Sumna road in Joshimath in Chamoli district along the India-China border. The commander of the Border Road Organization (BRO), Colonel Manish Kapil, had told that an accident occurred while the road construction work was going on. More than 10 laborers died in this accident. Heavy snowfall was thought to be the cause of glacier breakage. The Joshimath-Malari highway was also covered in snow due to the accident.

The water catastrophe has arrived in February
Earlier in Uttarakhand, at 7:30 in the morning of 7 February 2021, the glacier at Tapovan in Chamoli district fell and fell into the Rishiganga River. After the accident, the corpse of more than 50 people was found, while there were more than 150 people who could not be found after the accident. The administration also considered them dead after a few days of investigation. A dam on Dhauliganga was washed away due to the glacier falling in the river. Work was underway on the Rishiganga hydro power project of a private power company in Tapovan and the project of NTPC, a state-run company. It was here that the most damage was done in the disaster.