Nine tourists were killed, and three others were injured in multiple landslides near Batseri on the Sangla-Chitkul road in Himachal Pradesh’s Kinnaur district.
Heavy boulders let loose due to breach on the hilltop rained down on the tempo traveler (mini-bus) the victims were travelling in. The vehicle, which had 11 passengers, was on its way to Chitkul, a scenic village close to the China occupied Tibetan Autonomous Region.