Fifteen tourists including five children were rescued by a joint team of police and fire brigade from Robber’s cave tourist destination on Sunday when the water level in the Tons river rose alarmingly by heavy rainfall in its catchment area of Tehri and Mussooire.
Being Sunday large number of vistors had descended in the Rober's cave located in Gucchu pani area of the State capital. The upper reaches of Tons river which passes through the famous tourist spot had witnessed heavy rain on Saturday night and Sunday due to which water level raised alarmingly at around mid noon.
Most of the tourist left the place safely when the water level rose but 15 of them were trapped in middle and other end of river. The in-charge of the Cant police station Hairsh Mehra said that a message was flashed by the city control room at 12.15 pm that some tourists are trapped in Tons river in Gucchu Pani.
He said that the police team immediately coordinated with the local fire station. The joint team of the police and fire brigade started a rescue operation with the help of ropes and other equipments.
The tensed tourists heaved a sigh of relief on the arrival of the rescue team. The team rescued Sandip a resident of Dharampur, Sagar, Aakash and Samir residents of Yamunagar Haryana. Anand Singh and his wife Sheetal residents of Patel Nagar Dehradun were also among those trapped.
The sons of the couple, Rahul and Satyam and mother of Anand who were on a family vacation were also rescued from the spot.
The rescued included 82 year old Doya a resident of Tibetan colony Rajpur. Chasi, Chewa, Kama and Tenjin of Tebetan colony were also among those rescued. The locals and the rescued appreciated the effort of the rescue team.
The team included Inspector Harish Mehra, In charge Circuit house post, Umesh Kumar, Head Constable A S Negi, Constables Vidhya Sagar Uniyal, Bhagat Das, Ravindra Singh, Amit Rana, Subhash Kumar and Senior Fireman Bhimraj, Fireman Harish Negi, Bhagat Singh, Sunil Singh, Rupendra Singh and Diwakar Kumar.