Pilgrim dies after boulder hits vehicle

A pilgrim died when a vehicle in which they were travelling was hit by a boulder after a landslide in Uttarakhand's Chamoli district on Tuesday.

Eleven people were in the vehicle that was going to the Badrinath pilgrimage site. It was hit by a boulder falling from the hillside after a landslide, official sources said.

Three pilgrims have been rescued and efforts are on to extricate the rest, the sources added.