JAMMU: The Vaishno Devi yatra in J&K’s Reasi district will resume Sept 14, subject to favourable weather conditions, after remaining suspended for 19 days, a shrine board official said on Friday.The yatra was halted (the longest since the pandemic restrictions) after 34 people, mostly pilgrims, were killed and several others injured following a landslide due…
Five members of a family, including two children, died and three were injured after a landslide struck two houses in Himachal Pradesh’s Kullu on Tuesday. All the victims were asleep when the landslide smashed the houses in Shamarni village around 1.30 am. Locals rushed to the site and managed to rescue three people from the…
CHANDIGARH: Search for two persons missing in a landslide in Kullu entered the third day on Saturday even as the weather eased up a bit, allowing for rescue and restoration efforts to speed up across the state. The toll stands at 366 and 41 others are listed as missing in the hill state. Source link
Sudan rescuers pull 370 bodies from Darfur landslide (Pic credit: AP) KHARTOUM: Rescuers have recovered 370 bodies from a landslide that wiped out a remote mountain village in Sudan’s Darfur region, a local civilian leader said on Thursday.The disaster struck the village of Tarasin, located high in the Jebel Marra range, on Sunday following one…
Another landslide struck Mata Vaishno Devi shrine in Reasi; debris blocks pilgramage route (Pic credit: ANI) Another landslide struck the pilgrimage track leading to the Mata Vaishno Devi shrine in Jammu and Kashmir’s Reasi district on Wednesday, officials said. The landslide occurred at Sammar Point, blocking the route to the shrine. Authorities said no casualties…
Rescue teams recover 100 bodies in Darfur village; over thousands fear killed (Pic credit: AP) Rescue teams have recovered at least 100 bodies after a massive landslide buried an entire mountain village in Sudan’s Darfur region, a rebel group said on Wednesday. The Abdulwahid al-Nur faction of the Sudan Liberation Movement/Army (SLM/A) reported that torrential…
Massive landslide buries Darfur village Over 1000 people were killed in a massive landslide in Sudan’s western Darfur region late Monday, a rebel group that controls the area said. It added that only one survivor has been found. The Sudan Liberation Movement/Army said that a “massive and devastating landslide” hit the village of Tarasin in…
