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The rushing water soon turned into a turbulent river. Then the roadside hotel room started to drift, wobbling like an unhinged wagon. Minutes later it had disappeared under a heaving mass of slush and debris. Tales of “apocalyptic horror” poured out today after rescuers evacuated hundreds of pilgrims trapped in Kedarnath or on the way to the 11,000ft Uttarakhand shrine since Monday, drenched to the bone after three days of incessant rain. But the “tandav”, as one pilgrim described the elemental mayhem, appeared to have spared the temple to Shiva. “The Kedarnath shrine is safe but it is under a lot of slush,” chief minister Vijay Bahuguna told PTI after a meeting with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who announced Rs 1,000 crore as aid for relief and rescue operations. An official release from the Uttarakhand government said 271 pilgrims had been rescued from Kedar valley and many had been put up in shelters in Dehradun and Hardwar. Among them was a devotee from Bengal, Saumendu Das.
Posted on: Thu, 20 Jun 2013 06:39:56 +0000

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