A fresh disaster has struck Uttarakhand’s Chamoli district, where heavy rainfall on Thursday triggered a massive landslide and flooding that left at least ten people missing. Entire houses were flattened in Kuntari village, while the raging Moksha river swept away buildings in Dhurma, worsening an already fragile situation in Nandanagar, which has been reeling from land subsidence for weeks. According to Chamoli District Magistrate Sandeep Tiwari, rescue teams are on the ground but access roads remain blocked by debris, making relief operations increasingly difficult. Families have been devastated, with four members of one household among the missing.

Local volunteers, alongside Red Cross workers and disaster management officials, are battling dangerous swampy conditions to search for survivors. Eyewitnesses described torrents of mud and boulders rolling down hillsides, destroying everything in their path. While some residents managed to escape in time, they sustained severe injuries. At least ten people are reported injured, but shifting them to hospitals remains a major challenge as roads leading to Nandanagar are cut off. Authorities are now waiting for helicopters to airlift the injured, while additional teams from the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) and State Disaster Response Force (SDRF) have been rushed to the area.

Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami expressed sorrow over the tragedy, assuring that rescue and relief measures were being closely monitored from the state capital. He confirmed that police, SDRF, and local administration teams had been mobilised to provide urgent aid to affected families. The latest calamity comes just two days after heavy rains and cloudbursts wreaked havoc in Dehradun and neighbouring regions, killing 13 people and leaving 16 others missing. With back-to-back disasters striking Uttarakhand, concerns are once again mounting over the state’s vulnerability to extreme weather events and the urgent need for long-term safety measures in hill districts.