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Landslide
in Nainital claims three lives Nainital:
Incessant overnight rains resulted in landslide at Nainital in Uttarakhand on
Friday. Due to the impact of the landslide, a boulder fell on a house in the early
morning hours crushing three members of a family while they were asleep. "There
was a boulder lying behind the house. It rolled down all of a sudden and fell
on the house. My brother was inside the house," said Damodar, a kin of the victim
and an eyewitness. The house was being demolished, probably for a renovated construction
and almost all the household items were stored in a single room. All these things
were also extensively damaged by the fall of the boulder on the house. "Today
in the morning when it was raining, a boulder fell down on the members of a family
who were sleeping because of which they died. A couple and a child died in this
mishap," said H S Hayanki, Police Inspector, Nainital. Landslides have been a
recurring phenomenon in Nainital, which is located in the hills. Civic officials
in Nainital say that although much had been done in the past to prevent the landslides,
excessive urbanisation has upset the physical topography of the region and nullified
the efforts of the administration. -July
10, 2009 Go
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