ITANAGAR, JUN 24 (PTI): Incessant rain triggered flash floods in Arunachal Pradesh’s Keyi Panyor district on Wednesday, leaving one dead and four others missing, injuring 17 others and damaging at least 18 residential units, while landslides disrupted road connectivity and stranded travellers, officials said.
The body of Nirmala Gupta (35), a teacher at Vivekananda Kendra Vidyalaya (VKV) on NEEPCO campus at Yazali, was found during search and rescue operations following the devastating flash floods, Keyi Panyor Superintendent of Police Angad Mehta said.
The search and rescue operations were suspended for the day, and would resume at the break of dawn on Thursday, Mehta said.
Gupta was among the five persons who went missing from NEEPCO project colony near Poosa under Yazali circle. The remaining missing persons were identified as Elesh Marak (13), Balari Marak (30), Tao Anjina (46) and Sourav Kumar, State Disaster Management secretary Dani Sulu said.
Of the 17 injured, three were in a critical condition and were evacuated to Ziro in Lower Subansiri district for treatment, Sulu said.
An under-construction retaining wall collapsed due to the heavy downpour, leading to waterlogging in low-lying residential areas in and around the colony, he said, adding at least 18 residential units were damaged in the incident. District police and State Disaster Response Force (SDRF) personnel rescued one Bishu Sinha from Yazali reservoir, while a scientist of the Geological Survey of India (GSI) was rescued from a stretch of National Highway 13 affected by the calamity, police said.
