NEW DELHI, Aug 7: At least 11 people were killed in landslides or other accidents following heavy rain in north India and hundreds made homeless when their houses were submerged by an artificial lake, a report said on Sunday.
Eight members of a family at Rachi village in Pithoragarh district of Uttaranchal state were killed on Saturday when a wall of mud slammed into their house, the Press Trust of India news agency said. Rescue teams have recovered four bodies so far, the report said.
Another landslide killed two others in Uttaranchal’s Chamoli district while a local official died when his jeep skidded off the road and into a ditch. At Mudkot village in the state’s Pithoragarh district, more than 40 houses were submerged in an artificial lake formed due to landslides, prompting hundreds to flee the area.
Officials said residents were being housed and fed in a nearby college. A week of heavy rains in the western state of Maharashtra last month resulted in more than 1,000 deaths due to floods, landslides and electrocutions.—AFP
