Thal-Munsyari and Munsiyari-Milam road is closed in Pithoragarh, said the Pithoragarh Police and urged people to stay on alert in areas prone to rain and landslides.
Three hundred forty-six roads, including one national highway (NH-305), remained blocked, while 281 distribution transformers were out of service, cutting power to several areas. A total of 145 water supply schemes were also disrupted due to landslides, flash floods, and heavy rainfall.
Himachal Pradesh's cumulative monsoon death toll since June 20 has climbed to 276, of which 143 people have died in rain-related incidents such as landslides, flash floods, and house collapses, while 133 lost their lives in road accidents.
The monsoon's fury in Himachal Pradesh has left 276 people dead since June 20, with 143 fatalities caused by rain-related incidents such as landslides, flash floods, cloudbursts, drowning, electrocution, and falls from steep slopes, while 133 deaths were the result of road accidents, accordi
Of these, 143 people lost their lives in rain-related disasters such as landslides, flash floods, cloudbursts and drowning, while 133 died in road accidents triggered by incessant rains and unsafe conditions.
Amid recent incidents of cloudbursts and landslides in the region, the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) on Monday organised a one-day civil defence awareness and training camp in Rajouri, Jammu and Kashmir.
Continuous heavy rainfall has triggered a massive landslide in Shimla's Benmore locality, near Ramchandra Chowk, leaving over 30 families in a state of fear and forcing evacuations late Monday night.
As per the cumulative report by SDMA,140 fatalities were caused by rain-related incidents such as landslides, flash floods, drowning, and electrocution, while 128 people died in road accidents triggered during the season.
Multiple regions were affected by cloudburst-induced flash floods, exacerbating the suffering of residents. The Gilgit-Baltistan Disaster Management Authority (GBDMA) reported that a nine-year-old boy sadly lost his life in a landslide while returning home from summer grazing to his village,