Heavy rains in India’s Himachal Pradesh claimed 16 lives, including four of a family, while hundreds of people were stranded across the state after incessant rains triggered landslides, snapping road links, officials said on Monday (August 13).

A government advisory urged people to avoid travel as the weather officials warned of heavy rains in the state till Tuesday and thereafter on 16 and 17 August.

Four members of a family were killed in a landslide in Kandaghat subdivision in Solan district. A boy was washed away in the swollen Kaushalya river near Parwanoo in the district. A total of eight persons lost their lives in rain-related incidents in the district.

Landslides led to the death of three persons in Mandi district, while road traffic was disrupted for hours on the Chandigarh-Shimla, Shimla-Nahan, Chamba-Pathankot and Mandi-Pathankot highways.

"Continuous heavy rains have increased the water level in the Beas River and its tributaries, including the Parvati and the Tirthan," said the official.

Source: First Post

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