The floods have stranded tens of thousands of pilgrims and locals. Many roads have been destroyed and heavy rains are further threatening people’s lives.
Arvinder Singh together with 10 companions climbed over the mountains for five days to escape from the flood, contending with the same bad weather and rough road conditions that are hampering relief work.
According to report, there are still more than 4,000 people stranded by the flood and only two helicopters have come to rescue the stranded people.
Local soldiers told the young to walk out themselves and then women started to walk out too and have been stranded for four days.
India has dispatched 37 helicopters in the country’s largest-scale relief work mission in recent years, transporting relief supplies to victims and rescuing nearly 90,000 stranded people, most of them pilgrims and tourists, according to India’s Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde.
However, nearly 6,000 people are still stranded.
Many people are anxiously waiting in Dehradun, the capital city of Uttarakhand, which is one of the destinations for rescued victims transported by helicopter.
Victims are claiming government hasn’t helped them to find out our relatives and there is no information about them. According to the victims, government told them they had dispatched 40 vehicles to rescue them four days ago when we made the emergency call; however there is still no information about the stranded victims.
Uttarakhand’s Chief Minister Vijay Bahuguna said earlier that the flood has destroyed hundreds of villages in the state and the death toll will likely climb over 1,000, with still more than 300 missing.
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