A motorist had a narrow escape after huge boulders of rock fell on the Rishikesh-Chamba route in Tehri district of Uttarakhand.
The boulder fell on the passage from where the motorist had passed a moment ago. The landslide reportedly damaged underground water pipeline and vehicular movement was also affected due to the landslide, Times of India reported.
The incident took place near Nagni Petrol Pump, 15 km before Chamba on the Rishikesh-Gangotri National Highway. The highway was later closed at around 12.30 pm due to heavy boulders and stones falling from the hill. This resulted in long queues of vehicles on both sides of it.??
Some areas of Uttarakhand and?Himachal Pradesh?has been witnessing extreme weather conditions over the past few weeks.?
The two states have been witnessing an alarmingly high number of?landslides?this season.?
Meanwhile, a landslide in Shimla district of Himachal Pradesh has led to a block on the National Highway 5 that connects Firozpur in Punjab with Shipki La on the India-China border.
?A video shared by Himachal Traffic, Tourist and Railways Police on social media shows a mass of land sliding down a slope. Boulders can be seen tumbling down the slope amid a cloud of dust. Some vehicles, it appears, had a narrow escape as they are seen right on the edge of the point where the landslide occurred.??
"DPCR has informed that an incident of landslide occurred near Jeori- Sub-division Rampur District Shimla due to which NH-05 road has been blocked. No human or property loss reported by the Authority concerned yet," the state emergency operation centre said in a bulletin, according to news agency ANI.? ?
The district administration has directed the Sub-Divisional Magistrate, Rampur, and a police team to assess the situation.??