While the tourism department says 511 tourists registered on their portal are stranded in Mussoorie, the actual number is feared to be in the thousands
Priyanka Bisht had been trying to find a way to reach Dehradun since Tuesday, after her husband Mukesh’s creatinine blood level shot up. Mussoorie resident Mukesh, a kidney patient, had to undergo his biweekly dialysis on Tuesday. The duo got into a car and drove till they reached Galogi, where they had to turn back due to road closures on the way from Mussoorie to Dehradun.
On Wednesday, Mukesh was one of the 12 patients at the ITBP helipad in Mussoorie waiting to be airlifted.
Following a cloudburst in Dehradun’s Sahastradhara on Tuesday early morning, at least 13 people died and 16 are feared missing. The Disaster Management Authority has said that 15 bodies were retrieved in Uttarakhand — 13 in Dehradun and one each in Pithoragarh and Nainital — while several have gone missing after a cloudburst occurred on the intervening night of Monday and Tuesday. Along with the toll, several areas, including Mussoorie, have been cut off from the city with multiple blockages on the alternative routes
