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Landslides, heavy rains wreak havoc in Sikkim

Army and IAF personnel have launched rescue operations in full swing in the badly affected areas.

  • Landslides triggered by heavy rains have killed more than 20 people, including Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) and Border Roads Organisation (BRO) personnel, in Sikkim over the weekend.
  • Official sources said that at least 21 bodies were found while eight persons were missing following flash floods and landslides in remote areas of North Sikkim.
  • Officials say, there have been around nine landslides which blocked the main road between Chungthang and Mangan in the northern district. Another landslide at an area about a kilometre from Mangan, the district headquarter town of North Sikkim, blocked NH 31-A leaving the northern side of the Himalayan state cut off.
  • Army and IAF personnel have launched rescue operations in full swing in the badly affected areas. Two helicopters of IAF, one helicopter of Army have been deployed for rescue mission.
  • The state government has declared a state of alert along the establishments located on the river banks right from Lachen, Lachung, Chungthang, Mangan, Dikchu, Singtam and Rangpo.
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