Death toll in Samej cloudburst rises to 21

Shimla, August 30

Almost a month after flashfloods triggered by a cloudburst hit the Samej area of Rampur district on July 31, the body of a girl was recovered from Shimla district on Friday, taking the death toll in the tragedy to 21.

According to officials, the body was found under the Kol Dam in Sunni in the morning.

The body, which appeared to be that of a 14 or 15-year-old girl, was in a severely mutilated condition and has been sent for postmortem, the officials said.

A total of 21 bodies have been found so far in the search operation that was launched to find 36 missing persons in the Samej tragedy, Deputy Commissioner, Shimla, Anupam Kashyap said. “The search operation is going on,” he said.