More than 120 people, including Chardham pilgrims, have died or gone missing due to natural disasters and road accidents in Uttarakhand in the last two months.
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More than 120 people, including Chardham pilgrims, have died or gone missing due to natural disasters and road accidents in Uttarakhand in the last two months. These casualties resulted from bad weather conditions in the hill areas of the state.
Amidst continuous rain over the past 24 hours and a forecast of heavy rainfall until August 5, records show that more than 120 people have died or gone missing in natural disasters and road accidents over the past two months.
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Sharing information, the state disaster management department has claimed that 77 persons, several of them chardham pilgrims, died in road accidents resulting mainly from bad weather conditions. Besides them, 28 persons, mainly pilgrims and workers, were killed in natural disasters in hill areas. Around eight people are still missing as they fell into the rivers or were buried under landslide debris, in different incidents.
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Officials in the department said that the natural disasters resulting in these casualties since June 1, 2025, were mainly due to landslides and roads being washed away by heavy rains in the hills. Apart from human losses, around 94 animals were killed and 488 houses were damaged in different disaster incidents in the past 64 days.
Meanwhile, Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami has directed the district magistrates to ensure all 111 roads blocked in their respective areas resume traffic as early as possible.
In a virtual meeting, Dhami asked district magistrates, “In view of continuous rains across the state, officials must remain at ground zero with their teams to help the people in an emergency. Movements on roads must be resumed as early as possible in case of a blockade. Alternate tracks for the villagers must be created if the approach roads in the remote hills are blocked due to rain. District administrations must ensure uninterrupted water and power supplies to the hill villages and proper assessment of crop losses owing to rains and natural disasters.”
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