An official reported on Friday that after a landslip struck the Kullu area of the hill state, up to eight structures were completely destroyed while two others were only slightly destroyed.
The event happened on Thursday morning at Anni town in Kullu, according to Deputy Commissioner Kullu District Administration Ashutosh Garg.
The Deputy Commissioner added that no one perished in the landslip because everyone was timely evacuated.
“There was no human loss in the landslide incident because the people had been evacuated by the authorities in time. The properties had started developing cracks over the past few days and the landslide was predicted,” said Ashutosh Garg.
MLA Anni, Lokender Kumar said that the properties damaged in the landslide incident were worth crores of rupees and that there were no casualties since the area was evacuated a week prior to the incident.
“Crores of properties have been damaged in the landslide that hit the Anni town in Kullu on Thursday morning. The authorities had evacuated the area a week prior to the landslide. We have diverted the traffic from the area,” said the MLA.
On Thursday, the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) rescued 51 people who were stranded in cloud burst incident sites at Shehnu Gouni and Kholanala villages in Mandi district of Himachal Pradesh, said authorities.
Heavy rains, landslides, and cloudbursts reported from several sections of the Himalayan state have caused extensive damage and fatalities.
On Thursday, former Himachal Pradesh chief minister Jairam Thakur visited Kuklah in the Mandi district, which was devastated by a landslip, and he requested current state chief minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu to provide food for the locals.
“I have visited my constituency keeping in mind the significant loss caused by the state’s heavy rainfall. Today a two-story school building fell, and due to fissures practically all homes are now insecure. Six people’s lives had been lost in one day, according to the former HP CM.
The state has reported 113 landslides this monsoon season.