200 still stranded in Kinnaur, Himachal, as bad weather hits rescue ops

June 26, 2013 13:04

Even as the focus remains firmly on Uttarakhand, over 200 people remain to be rescued in rain-ravaged Kinnaur district of Himachal Pradesh. Rescue operations were today hampered and IAF and state choppers could not take off due to bad weather. Choppers were positioned at Rampur, Rekong Peo to make sorties to Pooh, Nako, Gaybang and other places but weather conditions were not conducive due to rain and fog, officials said.

The IAF and state choppers have so far evacuated 1,395 people but about 200 people, including local residents, are still waiting at various places for the choppers. "We will start sorties as soon as weather improve and try to evacuate maximum persons today," officials coordinating the chopper flights said.

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