Another spell of heavy rains in Mandi and the adjoining districts of Kulu, Kangra and Bilaspur districts have further caused widespread damage to property, roads, crops and fertile lands by erosion and landslide. Traffic, telecommunications, power and water supply have been partially paralyzed.
The beautiful tourist resort Barot situated on the bank of Uhl, a tributary of Beas, has been cut off from the rest of the state due to heavy landslides on the Ghataklsani link road connecting the place with Mandi – Pathankot national highway.
Heavy rains caused great loss to the property in Kataula and Baggi Valleys where rain water gushed into hundreds of houses. Many houses collapsed and the residents took shelter in the houses at higher altitude. Within an interval of one week Uttarshal Valley was again ravaged by incessant heavy rain. The veterinary hospital and Panchyat Ghar Segali are on the verge of collapsing. No relief measures are being taken on a war-footing, allege villagers. Flood water gushed into many houses in Dakbagra, 10 km from Jogindernagar, on Pathankot – Manali national highway at midnight on Thursday when the residents were sleeping and the panicked people ran helter-skelter to save their lives. An eye-witness Tarlok Chand told this reporter that the culvert of the swollen Dakbagra Nullah was choked by the flood water.