13 bodies recovered from Beas river in Himachal

July 12, 2023 22:30

A view of Beas river in Kullu during heavy rains in Himachal/ANI

Himachal Pradesh's acting director general of police Satwant Atwal Trivedi on Wednesday said that 13 bodies were recovered from Beas River in Kullu district.

Acting DGP said that the recovered bodies are yet to be identified.

The acting DGP said, "Yes I got information from the SP Kullu that 13 bodies were recovered by the police in Beas River in Kullu and the identification process is on, we need to send then for postmortem and I will not be able to comment much on this until we don't have confirmation of identification on it."

She further stated that many people in the state have contacted the district administration and police and over 40 foreign nationals have been rescued.

"Over 1500 people contacted Himachal Pradesh police who were stranded in different locations. Over 2000 people were rescued from the Kasol area of the Kullu district till Wednesday afternoon; others in the Lahaul-Spiti district are being moved out from the region," she said. -- ANI

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