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3 feared washed away as rivulet floods slums
Panchkula, August 3
Three persons, including two children, are feared to have been washed away as the seasonal rivulet passing through Rajiv and Indra colonies near Sector 17, flooded the area this morning.
 6 labourers feared washed away
Southern sectors flooded,
chinks in drainage exposed
Chandigarh, August 3
Besides the downpour, poor maintenance, bad planning in the southern sectors and even the natural slope which carries water to Sectors 34, 35, 44 and 43, contributed to the flooding of these areas in the city.
| Business hit:
Shopkeepers of Palika Bazar, Sector 19, Chandigarh, try to rescue their
goods. |
Houses
collapse: A number of houses collapsed in Kishangarh. |
| Highway breached:
A portion of road on the Chandigarh-Ambala highway that caved in following incessant rain in Chandigarh. |
Bus accident:
A bus that rammed into a tree on the Chandigarh-Ambala highway near The Tribune office. Tribune
photos by Manoj Mahajan |
Crisis management system comes
a cropper
Chandigarh, August 3
The crisis management system of the Chandigarh Administration and the Municipal Corporation of
Chandigarh(MCC) came a cropper as the season’s heaviest rainfall so far proved to be a nightmare for residents in certain parts of the city.
Commercial flights cancelled
Airfield water-logged
Chandigarh, August 3
All flying operations, including commercial traffic, was suspended to and from Chandigarh as incessant rain in the past 24 hours resulted in the airfield being water-logged. Besides, the civilian air terminal adjacent to the Air Force Station was heavily inundated.
Hundreds of families stranded atop houses
Dera Bassi, August 3
Hundreds of families living in over 25 villages were stranded atop their houses following the continuous heavy rain that has played havoc in this subdivision.
The raging Ghaggar, flowing at a record 2.40 lakh cusecs and above its danger level, left a trail of destruction, damaging crops and washing away protective spurs near the Lion Safari of the Chhat Bir Zoo.
| A jhuggi in Sector 25, Chandigarh, which collapsed killing two children on
Tuesday. |
Berms of the road dividing Sectors 4 and 12 were washed away in
Panchkula. |
| Traffic jam on the Chandigarh-Kalka road puts motorists to inconvenience. |
Traffic came to a standstill near the Sector 29-30-31-32 rotary in Chandigarh. |
| Residents of a house in Sector 21, Chandigarh, drain out water from their drawing room. |
Kishangarh village under rain
water.
— Tribune photos by Manoj Mahajan, Parvesh Chauhan and Pradeep
Tiwari |
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