The picturesque village of Dharali, nestled on the banks of the Bhagirathi river, now lies in stunned silence. Earlier this week, two cloudbursts in a span of hours unleashed torrential rain, triggering massive mudslides, landslides, and flash floods that tore through the region.
00:00Scary images are surfacing here in Dharali at Ground Zero after the excavation begins.
00:04When the sniffer dogs gives a signal, massive these areas are being digged by the SDRF persons, the NDRF and the Indian Army.
00:10Exactly the structure where I am standing, it probably could be a restaurant or a hotel.
00:14Almost three storey, three floor of a restaurant and virtually I am standing here at the rooftop of it.
00:20That itself explains the debris that amount up to 45 to 50 feet.
00:24Now these are the scary, remember when the mudslide came all along, it literally covered everything.
00:30And now there is hardly any possibility to find out survivors, whereas the search operation involves to at least find out the mortals of the people, those who are still missing.
00:38Now these SDRF persons are digging this entire landscape, one after one when the sniffer dogs gives out a signal.
00:45So eventually they found out, they unearthed this structure which was a restaurant, a three storey restaurant.
00:50We are on the rooftop, so this explains around 45 to 50 feet of the debris and that's the story of the devastation in Dharali.
00:58At Ground Zero in Dharali, with Deepak Vish, this is Ashutosh Mishra for India Today.
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