{"id":15870,"date":"2025-08-06T03:04:02","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T03:04:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=15870"},"modified":"2025-08-06T03:04:02","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T03:04:02","slug":"mudslide-engulfs-indian-himalayan-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=15870","title":{"rendered":"Mudslide engulfs Indian Himalayan town"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>A flash flood driving a torrent of mud smashed into a town in India&#8217;s Himalayan region on Tuesday, killing at least four people with around 100 others missing.<\/p>\n<p>The roaring waters tore down a narrow mountain valley, demolishing buildings as the flood barrelled into the town of Dharali in Uttarakhand state.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is a serious situation,&#8221; Minister of State for Defence Sanjay Seth told the Press Trust of India (PTI) news agency.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have received information about four deaths and around 100 people missing. We pray for their safety.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Videos broadcast on Indian media showed a terrifying surge of muddy water sweeping away multi-storey apartment blocks in the tourist region.<\/p>\n<p>Several people could be seen running before being engulfed by the dark waves of debris that uprooted entire buildings.<\/p>\n<p>Uttarakhand State Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami said rescue teams had been deployed &#8220;on a war footing&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>India&#8217;s army said 150 troops had reached the town, helping rescue around 20 people who had survived the wall of freezing sludge.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A massive mudslide struck Dharali&#8230; triggering a sudden flow of debris and water through the settlement,&#8221; the army said. Images released by the army, taken from the site after the main torrent had passed, showed a river of slow-moving mud.<\/p>\n<p>A wide swath of the town was swamped by deep debris. In places, the mud lapped at the rooftops of houses.<\/p>\n<p>State Disaster Response Force commander Arpan Yaduvanshi said the mud was 50 feet (15 metres) deep in places, swamping some buildings entirely.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Search and rescue efforts are ongoing, with all available resources being deployed to locate and evacuate any remaining stranded persons,&#8221; army spokesman Suneel Bartwal said.<\/p>\n<p>Prime Minister Narendra Modi expressed his condolences in a statement, and said that &#8220;no stone is being left unturned in providing assistance&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Chief Minister Dhami said the flood was caused by a sudden and intense &#8220;cloudburst&#8221;, calling the destruction &#8220;extremely sad and distressing&#8221;.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A flash flood driving a torrent of mud smashed into a town in India&#8217;s Himalayan region on Tuesday, killing at least four people with around 100 others missing. The roaring waters tore down a narrow mountain valley, demolishing buildings as the flood barrelled into the town of Dharali in Uttarakhand state. &#8220;It is a serious [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15870\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}