Overview
- Heavy rain on July 11 caused a retaining-slope collapse in Shimla’s Sanjauli area that sent debris toward houses and left several homes under immediate threat of collapse.
- A bailey bridge near Sangla in Kinnaur, declared unsafe on Friday, gave way on July 11 and has left the Sangla Valley isolated from road access.
- In Solan large boulders rolled onto a moving car and injured occupants while dozens of other landslides have damaged vehicles, washed away pedestrian links and blocked crucial routes.
- State reports say roughly 320 roads in Himachal and more than 120 in Uttarakhand have been blocked and over 200 transformers knocked out as rescue teams, the BRO and army work to clear routes and restore power.
- Across the border in southeastern Bangladesh floods and landslides have killed dozens and left more than a million people stranded or displaced as aid is ferried by boat and shelters open.