Heavy rains trigger cloudburst, landslides in HP

Heavy rains continued to lash several parts of Himachal Pradesh for the third day today, triggering landslides in Chamba district and causing sharp fall in mercury.
Jogindernagar in Mandi district was wettest in the state with 113 mm of rains.
Elsewhere Dalhousie recorded 86 mm rainfall, followed by Baijnath 78 mm, Arki 70 mm, Palampur 50 mm, Solan 30 mm, Una 27 mm, Manali and Dharamsala 24 mm each, Chamba 20 mm and Shimla 17 mm.
Heavy rains triggered landslides in Chamba district. 100 acres of cultivated land and 10 houses were washed away due to soil erosion in a remote village in tribal Pangi valley while vehicular traffic on Chamba-Nayagran highway was disrupted due to the landslide at Gharao village near Holi township, officials said.

The maximum temperature plummeted to 32 deg C at Nahan and 30.6 deg C at Una.