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It’s a race against time as weather, hunger threaten thousands of lives Dehradun/New Delhi: It’s now a grim race against time. With the next round of heavy rains expected on Monday in the hills of Uttarakhand, rescuers have just Saturday and Sunday to carry out a mammoth evacuation of thousands stranded in Kedarnath, Badrinath, Gangotri and Yamunotri, many of them old or ill, and several without food or shelter. The official death toll has reached 550. “Yes, we are running against time,” admitted ITBP chief Ajay Chaddha whose men and Army soldiers are carrying out a heroic evacuation operation in frighteningly difficult conditions. epaper.timesofindia/Default/Scripting/ArticleWin.asp?From=Archive&Source=Page&Skin=TOINEW&BaseHref=CAP/2013/06/22&PageLabel=1&EntityId=Ar00101&ViewMode=HTML
Posted on: Mon, 24 Jun 2013 07:06:10 +0000

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