News > Kinnaur landslide: Death toll reaches 14, CM visits Neugalsari to oversee relief and rescue work | Shimla News - Times of India

Kinnaur landslide: Death toll reaches 14, CM visits Neugalsari to oversee relief and rescue work | Shimla News - Times of India

The Times of India | 12/08/2021 06:31 PM | Click to read full article

The death toll in the landslide at Neugalsari in Kinnaur district has reached 14, while 13 others have been injured. Condition of two of the injured is said to be serious. Himachal Pradesh chief minister Jai Ram Thakur on Thursday visited Neugalsari to oversee the relief and rescue work.

Thakur said that the state government would provide rupees four lakh each to the next of kin of the deceased and Rs 50 thousand to those who are seriously injured in the incident. He said that Rs one lakh would also be provided to kins of deceased passengers of the bus by the transport department. He said that free treatment would also be provided to the injured by the state government.

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