Hp Floods

As the hill state of Himachal Pradesh braces for more rain after yesterday's devastation, Chief Minister Sukhwinder Singh Sukhu has appealed to people to stay indoors for the next 24 hours.

At least eight people are feared dead and seven reported missing in flash floods triggered by heavy rains in Himachal Pradesh, a senior disaster management official said today.

Himachal Pradesh weather: On Manali-Leh route, a landslide was triggered by relentless rain.

The search and rescue operations to look for 15 miners trapped since December 13 at a rat-hole mine in Meghalaya have stopped now. Two 25-horsepower (hp) pumps used to drain out the flooded illegal mine in the state's East Jaintia Hills were ineffective, officials said. Water from a nearby river kept flooding the mine, they said.

As the hill state of Himachal Pradesh braces for more rain after yesterday's devastation, Chief Minister Sukhwinder Singh Sukhu has appealed to people to stay indoors for the next 24 hours.

At least eight people are feared dead and seven reported missing in flash floods triggered by heavy rains in Himachal Pradesh, a senior disaster management official said today.

Himachal Pradesh weather: On Manali-Leh route, a landslide was triggered by relentless rain.

The search and rescue operations to look for 15 miners trapped since December 13 at a rat-hole mine in Meghalaya have stopped now. Two 25-horsepower (hp) pumps used to drain out the flooded illegal mine in the state's East Jaintia Hills were ineffective, officials said. Water from a nearby river kept flooding the mine, they said.