According to the embassy, this number may decrease as search and rescue work is going on in the flooded areas of Uttarkashi.
What you should know
It has been confirmed that 8 Nepalis are missing in Uttarkashi Dharali area of Uttarakhand, India. According to the Nepali Embassy in Delhi, 8 people have been confirmed missing in Uttarkashi till Sunday evening.
The embassy has not released the names and addresses of those missing in the flood. "Until now, 13 people have been rescued, 13 people are missing, including 5 missing in the Paudigarhwal landslide," said Prakash Malla, a counselor at the Nepali Embassy in Delhi. "13 people have been rescued."
After heavy rains last Tuesday, the Dharali market has been devastated after the severe flood in the Kheerganga river in the Dharali region. The houses and hotels in the market have been flooded. It is estimated that more than 50 people are missing in those buried houses and hotels. It is suspected that Nepalis may also be involved in it.
Search and rescue work has been going on in that area since Tuesday. Dharali is a small market on the banks of Bhagirathi on Gangotri Marg. As it was the last market on the way to Gangotri, a large number of hotels were operating in that area. Pilgrims rest here while going and returning. Because of this, it is estimated that the hotel workers and pilgrims may also be affected by the flood.
According to Uttarkashi DM (District Officer) Prashant Arya, 26 people who were said to be missing have been contacted. They who work in the Border Road Organization (BRO) have fled to higher places to escape during floods.
'Those who were said to be missing are going to be contacted after the phone service is operational,' DM Arya said, 'Gravel excavation work is going on in the flooded houses, after that more cases of disappearance will also come out.'
