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Rain, landslides wreak havoc in Assam; Army, Air Force were called in to rescue the stranded passengers in Dima Hasao. Guwahati News – Times of India

May 15, 2022
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Guwahati: Army and Air Force 100 elderly railway passengers stranded in the hilly areas of Assam have been called for airlift Dima Hasao District where the landslide brought rail link till the grinding stage.
happened in the event ditochera Where 15616 Silchar-Guwahati Express is stuck since Saturday. CEO of Assam State Disaster Management Authority (ASDMA), GD Tripathi said that old and elderly passengers, who could not cross the railway bridge to reach the evacuation train, are being airlifted. The process started on Sunday morning.
“A train between Dima Hasao and Cachar district was stuck due to a landslide. Of the 1,300 people on board, 1,200 could have walked across the broken bridge to reach a special train. But 100 passengers who are old and old, their There is no other way around. Need to be airlifted,” Tripathi told TOI. He said the process of airlifting started on Sunday morning. Tripathi said, “The railway bridge has broken, though the rail track is still intact.”

NFR CPRO, Sabyasachi Dey said that those who got down from the bridge managed to cross it and reached the 135-km spot where the special train was standing for them. “All the passengers boarded the special train and it reached Damchera, from where it will go to Badarpur (near Silchar),” he said.
Another train, 15615 Guwahati-Silchar Express, also got stuck at New Haflong due to the blocked train route. However, passengers are traveling by road to Maibong where a special train is waiting to take them to Guwahati. “There were 1,200 to 1,300 passengers stranded in New Haflong, but many of them had already left for their destinations by road. As of Sunday afternoon, the number of stranded passengers was around 800,” Dey said.

According to the ASDMA report on Saturday night, more than 24,000 people have been flooded in five districts of Assam due to incessant rains for the past few days. South Assam’s Cachar district affected the maximum number of 21,493 people. Three people were killed in Dima Hasao on Saturday morning after a landslide buried their house in Haflong’s Kokai Pungchi area.