"Will We Also Die": Man Recalls Chat With Daughter During Shimla Rains
NDTV
Shimla Landslides: A couple of multi-storey houses, some makeshift homes and a slaughterhouse were buried under the rubble.
“Will we also die, will our house too break, papa,” my six-year-old daughter asked as the horror of the devastating rains in Shimla hit home on Independence Day.
Our family had rushed out after hearing a deafening roar. There were screams as the side of a hill barely 100 metres from our home, across a nullah, slid. A couple of multi-storey houses, some makeshift homes and a slaughterhouse were buried under the rubble.
Our daughter was already upset when this landslide in Krishnanagar locality took place. Two girls, studying in nursery and class 2 at her school, had died Monday when a landslip buried a Shiv temple in Summer Hill locality.
