State Police Officer: Rajesh Prasad

Rajesh Prasad: The helicopters ferried rescue workers and doctors along with equipment, food and medicine to Kedarnath in the state of Uttrakhand, the nearest town to those trapped in the valley, said Air Commodore Rajesh Prasad, who is overseeing the operations, according to Times Colonist. He said the official death in Uttrakhand is 104 but added, "We don't know yet what happened to hundreds of people living there." An additional 17 people died in collapsed homes in neighbouring Uttar Pradesh state, said R.L. Vishwakarma, a state police officer and LUCKNOW, India - Days after floods killed more than 100 people possibly many more rescuers used helicopters and climbed through mountain paths to reach nearly 4,000 people trapped by landslides in a narrow valley near a Hindu shrine in the northern Himalayas, officials said Thursday. Amit Chandola, a state spokesman, said authorities so far have been unable to reach eight villages feared washed away by the weekend floods in the worst-hit districts of Rudraprayag and Chamoli. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.