Shimla, April 7 Heavy rainfall over the past 24 hours has triggered a massive landslide on the border of the Chamba and Lahaul and Spiti districts of Himachal, cutting off the tribal Pangi valley from the rest of the state.
The local meteorological station issued orange and yellow warnings of hailstorm, thunderstorm, and lightning in the plains and higher hills, and also predicted rainfall up to April 13.
The remote Pangi valley of the Chamba district was completely cut off from the rest of the state after a massive landslide on Monday night destroyed a 60-meter stretch of the Sansari-Kullu-Manali road in the district. About 40-50 people in private vehicles and taxis were stranded at Sugalwas and Kadu Nullah, with nearly all of them spending the night under severe cold conditions.
The severity of the landslide can be gauged from the fact that there is no trace of any road as a massive stretch of the hillside has collapsed, leaving no space, not even for pedestrians, to pass, eyewitnesses said.
The Border Road Organisation has begun the work of reopening the road, SDM Pangi Amandeep Singh told the