DEHRADUN

: Three people were killed and at least six injured after a house collapsed in

Haridwar

district as heavy

rain

wreaked

havoc

in several parts of Uttarakhand on Wednesday.
A family is reported to have gone missing following a

cloudburst

in a village in the Ghansali area of Tehri district, officials said.
A house collapsed due to heavy rain in Bharpur village near Roorkee in Haridwar district, killing three people and injuring more than half a dozen after they got buried under the debris, police said.

The injured have been admitted to a hospital. Torrential rain for a few hours in Haridwar inundated the entire city, washing away a truck of kanwariyas in the Sukhi river in the Kharkhari area. “There were no kanwariyas in the truck but it had rations and essential goods for their return journey,” the police said.

With the roads getting marooned, the administration changed the route of the kanwariyas at many places.
Devotees travelling to Kedarnath have been taken to safety. Chief minister Pushkar Singh Dhami himself is monitoring sensitive areas from the disaster point of view and is in constant touch with officials.
Dhami said the Met office issued an alert of heavy rain in many places.