(FE)
A cloudburst incident was reported at 2:45 am by locals at Uttarakhand’s Dehradun district on Saturday, State Disaster Response Force (SDRF) confirmed. The cloudburst incident has triggered a flash-flood like situation near the Tapakeshwar Mahadev temple, which lies next to the River Tamasa, following heavy, incessant rainfall.
“Water entered the temple with full force. We pray that there is no loss of lives or property. There was a bridge over the river which has got totally destroyed,” temple priest Digambar Bharat Giri told. Soon after the incident, several residents were moved to a safer place. However, the nature and the scale of damage is yet to be determined. As soon as the incident was reported from the Sarkhet village in the Raipur block in the wee hours of the morning, an SDRF team was rushed to the spot.
