At least eight people were trapped following a landslide in Uttarakhand’s Tehri Garhwal district on Wednesday morning. Four bodies have been recovered from the rubble during a search operation, ANI reported.
Efforts are on to rescue five more people trapped, in Kot village near Buda Kedar area.
The incident occurred just a day after two people were killed and 34 injured when a bus slid into a gorge in Tehri Garhwal district. The accident took place at 8 am on the Link Road near Badrinath National Highway. The bus was on its way to Rishikesh and had 36 people on board, including a driver and a conductor, though its seating capacity was just 22.
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