Tehri(Uttarakhand):At least four persons, including two women and a four-month-old baby, died after being hit by a landslide in Chamba in Uttarakhand's Tehri district on Monday, official sources said. The SDRF rushed to the spot and started a search and rescue operation at the site, they said.
Tehri Senior Superintendent of Police Navneet Singh Bhullar said four bodies have been recovered so far and search is underway for another missing person. Earlier in the day, the bodies of two women and a child were found in a car which was buried under the landslide rubble. The deceased were identified as Poonam Khanduri, her four-month-old son and her sister-in-law Saraswati Devi. Later, the body of a 30-year-old man identified as Prakash was also pulled out of the debris.
District Magistrate Mayur Dikshit, SSP Bhullar and Chief Development Officer Manish Kumar are at the spot, police officials said. Meanwhile, all schools from class 1 to 12 and anganwadi kendras in Bhilangana, Chamba, Narendra Nagar and Jaunpur in Tehri district have been closed on Tuesday on the orders of the DM in view of the MeT department's heavy rain alert for various parts of the state over the next two days.