Two persons have died and around 30 are missing after a landslide in Himachal Pradesh’s Kinnaur this afternoon left several vehicles buried under debris.
A state-run bus, a truck and a few cars were trapped after the landslide blocked the Reckong Peo-Shimla highway. The bus, travelling to Shimla, reportedly had 40 people on board.
Some 25-30 people are trapped or buried, an official told Reuters. Ten people have been rescued and are in hospital.
A video showed boulders and rocks rolling down the hillside with a roar before crashing into vehicles on the highway.
Around 200 troops of the Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) were sent for rescue efforts.
“We expect the rescue operations to continue through the night, if not longer,” Vivek Pandey, an ITBP spokesman, was quoted as saying by news agency Reuters.
“The area is currently very dangerous,” he added.
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