No clues on missing Nepali pilgrims
NEW DELHI, JUL 01 -
Thirteen days after the flood ing and landslides in the Uttarakhand state of India, there is still no clue about the whereabouts of many Nepali pilgrims missing in the incident.
The Uttarakhand government has announced that the death toll of the June 16 disaster could be well over 5,000.
Speaker of the Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly GS Kunjawal claimed on Sunday that the number of deaths could cross 10,000.
The announcement has rendered the relatives of the missing victims hopeless. Many of them have started returning home.
Raju Rana of Rukum, who was rescued out from landslide debris near Kedarnath, said 15 of his friends working as palanquin carriers are buried under the rubble.
Rana, whose lower part of body was crushed by the landslide debris, is admitted in a hospital at Dehradun with spinal cord injury on Satruday.
Bharat Bahadur Bam of Bajura was admitted to the hospital with leg injury on Sunday. He was caught in a landslide at Gobindaghat area. Bam’s elder brother, Bhim Bahadur, survived the incident.
According to the New Delhi-based Nepali Embassy, nearly 50 Nepalis are still stranded in Guptakashi region.Pushparaj Pandey, a rescue volunteer in Haridwar, said rainfall since Sunday afternoon has hindered the ongoing rescue operation.
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