At least four persons are believed to have been washed away in the Parvati river after a cloudburst hit Chojh village in Himachal Pradesh’s Kullu district on Wednesday.
A woman drowned in the Malana river after a ‘flash flood’ at the Malana Hydroelectric Project site in Kullu’s Bhuntar. In Shimla’s Dhalli, a young woman died and two others were injured after rains triggered a landslip.
In Chojh village, the cloudburst occurred around 6 a.m., causing a huge inflow of water into the already swollen Parvati as heavy monsoon rain had lashed the region late in the night on Tuesday. “Four persons, who were reportedly washed away in the Parvati river, are still missing. Rescue teams are on the job,” Sudesh Kumar Mokhta, State Disaster Management Director, told The Hindu.
