Pithoragarh (Uttarakhand): One woman was killed and another went missing after torrential rains lashed Pithoragarh district of Uttarakhand. A portion of a bridge was also washed away in the region.
According to reports, a woman was killed in Metli village and another went missing in Jara Jibli village of the Bangapani subdivision of the district.
While Radha Devi of Metli village died after being swept away by the swirling waters of Gori river, Kalavati Devi of Jara Jibli village is missing, SDM AK Shukla said.
Meanwhile, a portion of the bridge built across the Gosi river under Pithoragarh and Bangapani tehsils collapsed on Tuesday morning following overnight heavy rainfall.
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"The rains have also washed away the bridge at Lumti on Jauljibi-Munsiyari road resulting in disconnection of over 40 villages of Munsiyari region from the district headquarters," the SDM said.
Teams of the State Disaster Response Fund (SDRF), revenue police and Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) have rushed to the affected villages to undertake relief and rescue work, he said.
Earlier yesterday, three persons got buried alive when torrential rains reduced their houses into a heap of rubble in two separate incidents in Pithoragarh district.
While a mother (55) and son (30) were killed after their houses in Bangapani sub-division collapsed, another 37-year-old woman died in the neighbouring Tejam sub-division.
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Heavy rain has been wreaking havoc in Pithoragarh for the past few weeks, with at least 12 people being killed in a cloudburst hit Tanga village of the district on July 20.
In late June, heavy rain had triggered a landslide in Dakhim village of the district, leaving four persons including two women and a child injured apart from damaging houses and killing livestock.
