At least 13 people have died and dozens are missing after a landslide caused rocks and heavy boulders to crash onto a highway in the northern Indian state of Himachal Pradesh on Wednesday.
The landslide hit in the morning local time, leaving a bus and several other vehicles trapped on the mountainside highway. Photos from the scene show rescue workers navigating crushed vehicle parts, flipped cars and scattered debris, with portions of the highway blocked completely by loose earth fallen from the mountain above.A rescue operation at the site of a landslide in Kinnaur district in the northern Indian state of Himachal Pradesh on August 11.
So far, 13 people have been rescued, said a spokesperson from the Indo-Tibetan Border Police on Thursday. More than 20 people are still missing, he said.Read More"The debris fell from quite high up," local police chief Saju Ram Rana told Reuters, adding that heavy machinery was being brought in to clear the area.Soldiers carrying the body of a victim from the site of a landslide in Himachal Pradesh, India, on August 11.
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