00:00water bodies, including the Bias River, continue to overflow.
00:04The rise and toll plaza at Kullu-Manali Highway has been taken over by the Bias River.
00:10Heavy rainfall that continues across Himachal Pradesh that has caused a sharp rise in the Bias River water levels.
00:16Authorities and locals remain on alert as downpour continues in the hill state.
00:21A significant portion of the Kullu-Manali National Highway was washed away
00:25and several structures on the roads destroyed, leading to people being stranded on the hills.
00:31Heavy rainfall lashed Badarwa in Jammu and Kashmir, causing waterlogging and disruption in several areas.
00:38Homes that were washed away in flash floods in the hills.
00:41A similar situation prevails in Amritsar, where Army has deployed terrain vehicle in flood-affected areas
00:48to carry out rescue and relief operations.
00:51We are on the Kullu-Manali Highway, which is badly devastated.
00:58And you can see, where I am standing, this is like a river, the water is flowing in that way.
01:03This is absolutely not the Bias River in the middle of the river.
01:06You can see, this is a highway.
01:08This is Kullu-Manali Highway.
01:10And behind me, you can see a toll plaza.
01:12This is a toll plaza, which is a motorable road, where cars were passing, trucks were passing.
01:17But you can see, how much water is in this toll plaza.
01:20This is a toll plaza, which is coming to us from the river Bias Cross.
01:24So, there is so much water, and this is the impact that there was a lot of water.
01:28But today, it's about 40 minutes later, there is a free-flowing water that you see in this toll plaza.
01:34This whole area has become a riverine sector.
01:40This is the Kullu-Manali Highway, which has been broken, completely washed away.
02:08And that resort also hangs in danger.
02:11You can see that resort, that hangs in danger.
02:13So, the impact of the flood and the inundation was so much, that it has broken entire highway.
02:18An entire piece of land has been washed out.
02:21There is around more than 100 meters, 200 meters of land, which is washed out.
02:25I'll explain you through this, that you can see behind me.
02:27This is the highway, which comes from Kullu.
02:31On this side is Kullu.
02:32And behind me is Manali, which is totally washed out.
02:36And this is the situation here, that inclement conditions, weather, although things have opened up a bit now.
02:42The skies are open.
02:43It's a bright sunny day as of now, but it rained early morning.
02:45But this is the kind of signs of devastation you can see on the Kullu-Manali Highway, completely cutting off the connectivity of this region.
02:53So, everybody here on the edges is living in danger.
02:55All the establishments have been evacuated, but the connectivity continues to stay an issue on this Kullu-Manali Highway,
03:05as there was heavy rains, incessant rains, flash floods, cloud bursts that basically created havoc for the entire area.
03:12The Kullu-Manali Highway has been eliminated since Kullu-Manali Hills.
03:20we have to run away from the car
03:22and we can see that the city has gone
03:24on the car and we can see what the city
03:26is.
03:28this is a whole highway
03:30and this was all here
03:32and towards the South.
03:34you can see that the 24 river
03:36has pulled away from the car
03:38and the entire
03:40disconnection
03:42also has been
03:43but this whole
03:46is a boundary
03:49This is what we can see here.
04:19river
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