At least 18 killed in Indian Himalayas as rain triggers landslides
Unusually heavy rain and melting glaciers have brought deadly flash floods to the mountains of India and neighbouring Pakistan and Nepal over the past year or two with government officials increasingly blaming climate change.
At least 18 killed in Indian Himalayas as rain triggers landslides
Shimla: Torrential rain in India’s Himalayas triggered landslides over the weekend that have killed at least 18 people, with dozens trapped or missing, officials said on Monday. Unusually heavy rain and melting glaciers have brought deadly flash floods to the mountains of India and neighbouring Pakistan and Nepal over the past year or two with government officials increasingly blaming climate change.
Television footage from India’s Himachal Pradesh state showed houses flattened by landslide, buses and cars hanging on the edge of precipices after roads gave way and hundreds of people at rescue sites as emergency workers struggled to clear debris.
“Again, tragedy has befallen Himachal Pradesh, with continuous rainfall over the past 48 hours,” the state’s chief minister, Sukhvinder Singh, said in a post on the messaging platform X, formerly known as Twitter.
“Reports of cloudbursts and landslides have emerged from various parts of the state resulting in loss of precious lives and property,” he said.
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