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Hundred Badrinath pilgrims await evacuation, says NDMA
Updated On: 03 July, 2013 04:25 PM IST | | Agencies
Rescue operations at Badrinath in flood-ravaged Uttarakhand have not ended yet, as about hundred pilgrims and 200 local people are still to be evacuated, a disaster management official said today.
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"Still we have 100-odd yatris who need to be evacuated from Badrinath. The yatris have come from Dehradun, Nainital and Pithoragarh, and a lot of them claimed to have come to visit Badrinath," Vinay Kajla, joint advisor at National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA), said.
Besides the yatris, there are about 200 residents of Mana village in Badrinath who are to be evacuated.
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