Flood, cloudburst, fresh landslides hit Uttarakhand again

Dehradun, July 12: Fresh flood, cloudburst, landslides hit Uttarakhand once again on Friday, July 12. Railway tracks have been flooded, reported TV news.

Cloudburst was reported from Nailchami area of the hill state. Uttarakhand has witnessed incessant rains in the last few days due to which helicopters have not been able to fly and the relief work has been severely hampered.

The land routes had suffered extensive damage during the cloud burst and flash floods last month and access by road to the Kedarnath shrine has remained cut off since.

According to weather reports published on Friday, rain and thundershowers occurred at most places, along the west coast and coastal Andhra Pradesh.

Many places over east Uttar Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Odisha, and Gangetic West Bengal, Uttarakhand, Haryana, Delhi, West Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Sub­ Himalayan West Bengal, Sikkim, north­eastern states, East Madhya Pradesh, Jharkhand, interior Maharashtra, interior Karnataka, interior Andhra Pradesh, Andaman and Nicobar islands and Lakshadweep and at one or two places over Rajasthan, west Madhya Pradesh and Tamilnadu have aslso received heavy rainfall. These areas are going to receive heavy rainfall during the next 2 days also.

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