Shimla: The incident happened near Mandi-Pathankot highway late last night due to landslide, two buses went deep of 800 meters down into a narrow valley and one of the bus completely buried, Seven people were killed after a massive landslide and Over 20 are missing police said that “they were travelling in Himachal Pradesh’s Mandi district, one of the two buses were going towards manali from chamba and the other one from manali to Katra, Director General of Police Somesh Goyal said eight passengers were travelling in the Manali-Katra bus while 47 passengers were in the other bus, the two buses were parked on the highway while the passengers were out for snacks just before the landslide happened, It swept away the buses 800 meters down into a narrow valley and buried one of the bus completely.
The Deputy Commissioner Sandeep Kadam told that number of people may feared dead in the landslide could be as high as 50, The army along with the local authorities and the National Disaster Response Force are carrying out a search and rescue operation, Rescue workers are finding it difficult to retrieve the Manali-bound bus as it rolled down 800 meters below the road and got stuck under a huge mountain of fragments, The police said five people have been rescued and taken to a hospital in Mandi, The bodies of the driver and the conductor of Chamba depot Chanden Sharma and Satpal, respectively, have been found, Prime Minister Narendra Modi tweeted in twitter and offered his sympathy towards who were “Pained by the loss of lives due to landslide related accidents in HP’s Mandi district. My condolences with the families of the deceased”.
