Overview

• Cloudbursts and landslides hit Chamoli, Rudraprayag, Tehri and Bageshwar overnight, burying homes and damaging roads and bridges.
• Officials reported five fatalities across the districts—two in Bageshwar, two in Chamoli and one in Rudraprayag—with 11 people still unaccounted for.
• NDRF, SDRF, DDRF and police teams are operating on a war footing, though broken roads and debris are delaying entry to villages such as Chenagad and Taljaman, where families are feared trapped.
• Major pilgrim corridors are shut, with the Badrinath highway blocked at multiple points and sections of the Kedarnath route closed between Syalsaur and Chopta.
• Rivers including the Alaknanda and Mandakini are running high under continuing rain, and the IMD issued red alerts for Bageshwar, Chamoli, Dehradun and Rudraprayag.