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Assam: Many trains cancelled due to rain, landslide
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SME Times News Bureau | 15 May, 2022
The Indian Air Force (IAF) and the Northeast Frontier Railways (NFR)
have evacuated over 1,500 stranded passengers while over 25 pairs of
trains connecting Tripura, Mizoram and southern Assam had to cancelled
following heavy landslides triggered by incessant rains in Dima Hasao
district in Assam, officials said on Sunday.
The NFR
officials said that most of the stranded passengers were evacuated on
Sunday from Ditokcherra by train while the remaining passengers were
airlifted to Silchar by IAF choppers.
In view of water logging
and landslides due to heavy rain, between Jatinga Lumpur and New
Harangajao, and between Bandarkhal and Ditokcherra sections and other
several locations in Lumding-Badarpur hill section of Lumding division
of NFR, services of 25 pairs of trains have been cancelled/ partially
cancelled.
"The stranded passengers of these trains are safe. All
kinds of essential items like food and drinking water are being
arranged by the railway authorities for them," the NFR official said.
A
district official of Dima Hasao district said that soils of 100 meter
railway tracks at Daotohaja-Phaiding section and similar length of the
vital Haflong-Jatinga highway had been washed away due to the non-stop
rains, which continued for the past five days.
At least three
people were killed and a few others went missing following heavy
landslides triggered by incessant rains in Dima Hasao district in Assam
during the last 24 hours.
Officials of the Assam State Disaster
Management Authority (ASDMA) said that three persons, including a woman,
lost their lives in Haflong revenue circle of Dima Hasao district.
After the landslides, few people remained missing till Sunday.
The
mountainous district has been ravaged by flash floods and massive
landslides in more than nine places causing snapping of vital rail and
road links from other parts of the state and region.
Over 80
houses were either fully damaged or severely affected due to the
landslides, which occurred at New Kunjung, Fiangpui, Moulhoi,
Namzeurang, South Bagetar, Mahadev Tilla, Kalibari, North Bagetar, Zion
and Lodi Pangmoul villages.
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