Himachal Pradesh : Watch Scary Visuals of Massive Land Collapse in Landslide

  • | Friday | 30th July, 2021

Himachal Pradesh witnessed a massive landslide with no casualties reported yet. 

 Amid the days when the restrictions are eased in comforting the travelers to enjoy the season, such natural calamities become a challenge to lives. A massive piece of land in Himachal Pradesh mid of highway collapsed in the morning.  The road caved at Sirmaur after two days of incessant rain.

A clip that has been widely shared shows a chunk of the hillside falling, taking the road with it. About 100 meters of the road slides down and vanishes in moments. There are no reports of casualties.

A series of cloudbursts, flash floods, and landslides have been reported from the region over the past few days.

The road, according to officials, connected two points called Paonta Sahib and Shillai-Hatkori. The National Highway 707 is blocked due to the landslide.

Traffic has been closed in the area and policemen posted at the entry points to warn people to take different routes.

Last evening, a woman died and nine people were injured when a pickup van fell into a gorge in the same district, according to a state disaster management official quoted by PTI.


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