Passengers of a tourist bus in Uttarakhand had a miraculous escape after it went off road, and slid through the the silt. The bus in Bageshwar, with 20 people on board, slided off the road because of the silt created by the landslide. Uttarakhand is reeling under the monsoon fury and the government has issued a heavy rain alert across all districts of the State. Massive landslide blocked the Shimla-Kalka highway in Solan. "Two national highways are blocked due to heavy landslide.

Source: India Today August 06, 2017 05:48 UTC