Kinnaur landslide: 3 of family among dead; see complete list

Tribune Web Desk

Chandigarh, July 25

Nine people were killed and three others injured in multiple landslides in Himachal Pradesh’s Kinnaur district on Sunday.

Multiple landslides occurred near Batseri on Sangla-Chitkul road, they added.

Heavy boulders fell on a tempo traveller carrying 11 people, killing nine and injuring two, according to the police.

In a similar incident, one person was injured in another landslide in Kinnaur district, they added.

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The deceased included three persons of a family including mother, son and daughter namely Maya Devi Banyani, Anurag Biyani (31) and Richa Biyana (35) from Sikar in Rajasthan, besides driver Umrab Singh (42) from Delhi, Pratiksha Sunil Patil (27) from Maharashtra, Deepa Sharma (34), Amogh Bapat (27) and Satish Katakbar (34), both from Chhattisgarh and Kumar Ulhas (37) whose details are being verified.

The injured are Shiril Obroy (39) from Delhi, Naveen Bhardwaj (37) Mohali, Punjab, and pedestrian Ranjeet Singh (45) from Kinnaur (HP) are under treatment at Community health Centre, Sangla. With PTI inputs