Despite all-out efforts by police, the SDRF and team constituted by the administration for the past twenty hours, the missing 35-year-old woman Anita Dangwal from Maroda village who was swept away in the current of the swirling waters during the cloudburst on Monday evening is yet to be traced.
Pauri district magistrate Chandra Shekhar Bhatt and senior superintendent of police Nevidita Kukreti Kumar have been supervising the search operation since Tuesday morning from right in the village. On Monday evening, as cloudburst lashed Marora village under Paubo block, Anita Dangwal was swept away in the flow of the whirling water. Over 40 cows were swept away too. Around two dozen cowsheds and five houses were badly damaged. The residents of Marora village are still suffering from the aftermath of the cloudburst. The electricity connection snapped and it is yet to become normal. The water supply is also being affected in the cloudburst-struck village.
DM Bhatt instructed the officers of Jal Nigam, power corporation and PWD on phone from the village to restore the water and electricity supply at the earliest. Bhatt assured the villagers that all possible help will be rendered to them.