Dehradun cloudburst: Scary visuals of flash floods emerge

NEW DELHI: A almighty cloudburst deed Dehradun connected Tuesday, triggering flash floods that swept done parts of the metropolis and caused wide damage.Overnight torrential rainfall led to the harm of a span adjacent Fun Valley and Uttarakhand Dental College connected the Dehradun–Haridwar National Highway.

The harm disrupted postulation question and near respective commuters stranded, prompting authorities to enactment connected precocious alert.Scary visuals from the country showed h2o gushing done astatine precocious speed, posing a menace to adjacent areas.

Chief curate Pushkar Singh Dhami expressed interest implicit the situation, peculiarly successful the Sahastradhara area, wherever respective shops and hotels were damaged."Received the bittersweet quality of immoderate shops getting damaged owed to dense rains successful Sasthdhara, Dehradun, precocious past night.

District administration, SDRF, and constabulary person reached the spot and are engaged successful alleviation and rescue operations," the main curate said successful a station connected X."I americium perpetually successful interaction with the section medication successful this respect and americium personally monitoring the situation. I commune to God for everyone's safety," helium added.The Sahastradhara stream overflowed owed to the dense rain, sweeping debris into the main marketplace country and causing terrible harm to commercialized establishments.

In different portion of the city, the Tamsa River besides roseate sharply, flooding the premises of the Tapkeshwar Mahadev temple. Water entered the courtyard and roseate up to the statue of Hanuman, though the sanctum sanctorum remained safe.Temple clergyman Acharya Bipin Joshi said the flooding began aboriginal successful the morning."The stream started flowing heavy since 5am, the full temple premises were submerged. This benignant of concern had not taken spot successful a precise agelong time. Losses person been incurred astatine assorted places. People should debar going adjacent rivers astatine this time. The sanctum sanctorum of the temple is safe. No quality nonaccomplishment has been reported arsenic of now," helium said.Relief and rescue teams from the SDRF and section constabulary are continuing operations successful affected areas.(With inputs from agencies)