Torrential rain devastates Northern India
Spokesman Amit Chandola said the rescue operation centered on evacuating nearly 27,000 people trapped in the worst-hit Kedarnath temple area in the Garhwal Himalayan range.
Although the water level in the Yamuna receded below danger levels, for many it will be sometime yet before they can return home in the low lying areas along the riverbank and resume regular life.
Days after floods killed more than 100 people, rescuers used helicopters and climbed through mountain paths to reach nearly 4,000 people trapped by landslides in a narrow valley near a Hindu shrine in the northern Himalayas, officials said Thursday.
With heavy rainfall in northern India, water have been released from barrages upstream, flooding the banks of the Yamuna in Delhi.
At least 102 people have died and thousands of people remain stranded in the northern Indian state of Uttarakhand following torrential monsoon rains, landslides and cloud bursts.
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A joint army and air force operation evacuated nearly 12,000 Hindu pilgrims stranded in a mountainous area by torrential monsoon rains and landslides in northern India.
India's army and air force have evacuated thousands of Hindu pilgrims stranded in a mountainous area after torrential monsoon rains and landslides caused death and destruction in northern India.
The latest rains have affected several states and the capital, New Delhi, where nearly 2,000 people were evacuated to government-run camps on higher ground.
Torrential rain and floods washed away buildings and roads, killing at least 23 people in the northern Indian state, officials said on Monday. Many more people remain missing.
Torrential monsoon rains have cause havoc in northern India leading to flash floods, cloudbursts and landslides as the death toll continues to climb and more than 1,000 pilgrims bound for Himalayan shrines remain stranded.