VARANASI: Nearly 3,000 people were evacuated in India’s remote northeast after an artificial lake created by landslide threatened their lives, even as flood water levels stabilized by a landslide threatened their lives. Even as foods water levels stabilized in the worst-hit areas of the north,officals said yesterday Rakesh Ranjan, a Nation Disaster Response Force official, said the rescue this’s week was in the mountainous Mangan district of Sikkim state.
But the misery eased domeewhat, with rains ebbing over the past three days in Uttar Pradesh satate where 200,000 people have moved to relief centres with their village homes submerged, said Deepak Singhal, a top sate official.