Himachal Pradesh The situation is getting worse due to heavy rains and floods. Ten people, including five employees of the forest department, were trapped on Sunday due to rise in water level in the dam of Koldam hydroelectric project in Mandi district. who have been saved. District Administration Mandi said, due to rising water level, ten people who were stranded in a boat in Kol Dam reservoir were rescued at around 3 am.
Relief and rescue operations went on through the night
DC Mandi Arindam Chowdhary said, 5 forest department officials and 5 local people were trapped in a boat in Kol dam reservoir due to rising water level. To save them, relief and rescue operations were carried out overnight with the help of NDRF and local administration teams.
#UPDATE , Ten people who were stuck in a boat at Kol Dam reservoir due to a rise in water level, were rescued around 3 am in the morning: District Administration, Mandi
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No information about how the incident happened
DC Mandi Arindam Chowdhary said, it is still not known how this incident happened. The local people informed the administration in this regard after which the NDRF team reached the spot.
These people were trapped in the dam
Officials said five of those trapped in the dam… Bahadur Singh, Bhupesh Thakur, Roop Singh, Babu Ram and Angad Kumar… are forest department employees, while the other five are locals identified as Nain Singh, Dagu Ram, Hem Raj, Budhi Singh and Dharmendra.