TIL Desk/National/Shimla/ About 50 Indian Institute of Technology students on a trek in Himachal Pradesh’s Lahaul valley were rescued by Indian Air Force helicopters while over 500 people remain stranded in other areas in Lahaul and Spiti district, officials said on Tuesday.
The death toll in the state, battered by heavy rains — and snowfall in Lahaul and Spiti — has risen to 10 with four more deaths being reported on Tuesday.A team of six trekkers from New Delhi and Shimla is missing in Kinnaur district, officials said. A rescue operation will be launched on Wednesday.
The incessant rains had triggered flash floods and landslides in the hill states of Jammu and Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh and Haryana, killing at least 11 people on Monday. There were rains also in Punjab and Uttarakhand. No fresh casualties were reported in the other states on Tuesday.
But in Himachal Pradesh’s Shimla district, two labourers were killed and four others injured when a rock fell on their home in Nerwa’s Bihari Colony. Also, two people were killed when a car skidded off a slippery road in the state’s Kinnaur district.
